Second Order Nonlinear Silica-Based Fibers and Microspheres

After decades of development, optical fiber technology has reached a high degree of sophistication and maturity, and currently serves as the backbone of today''s internet. Despite its technical versatility and capability, current silica fiber technology still has a significant flaw: since silica fibers only possess very weak second order nonlinearity, it has been impossible to develop a large number of important nonlinear optical devices and instruments, such as optical parametric amplifiers (OPA) and optical parametric oscillators (OPO). In this thesis,we show how to overcome this intrinsic limitation, and introduce second order nonlinearity into silica fiber devices.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• Hofmann, Matthias Colin

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Xu, Yong

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Wang, Ge
• Safaai-Jazi, Ahmad
• Wang, Anbo

• coating
• microsphere
• silica device
• thin film
• nonlinear optics
• second order nonlinear
• fiber taper
• ISAM

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Dc Identifier Other

etd-05222009-000634

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/76786