Optical and optoelectronic fiber devices

The ability to integrate materials with disparate electrical, thermal, and optical properties into a single fiber structure enabled the realization of fiber devices with diverse and complex functionalities. Amongst those, demonstrated first in our work, are the surface-emitting fiber laser, the hollow-core fiber amplifier, the thermally self-monitored high-power transmission fiber device, and the photo-detecting fiber-web based imaging system. This work presents the design, analysis, and characterization of those devices. It opens with a study of the transmission properties of the multimode hollow-core, photonic bandgap fiber constructed of a periodic multilayer cladding. A defect is then introduced into one of the cladding layers and the interaction between core and defect modes is investigated. The second chapter addresses the experimental problem encountered in many multimode waveguide applications: how to extract, and to some extent to control, the modal content of the field at the output of a waveguide. We developed a non-interferometric approach to achieve mode decomposition based on a modified phase retrieval algorithm that can yield the complete vectorial eigenmode content of any general waveguiding structure and demonstrated its validity experimentally. In the third chapter an active material is introduced into the hollow-core to form a surface-emitting fiber laser. A unique azimuthally anisotropic optical wave front results from the interplay between the cylindrical resonator, the anisotropic gain medium, and the linearly polarized axial pump. We show that the direction and polarization of the wave front are directly controlled by the pump polarization.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Shapira, Ofer, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Yoel Fink.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40511

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/40511