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Designer Optical Fibers: It's not just about the waveguide anymore

Tuesday December 6, 2016
3:30 pm


 Presenter:  Dr. Peter D. Dragic, Univ. of Illnois Urbana-Champaign
 Series:  OSE Seminars
 Abstract:  The performance of modern optical fibers has largely plateaued in a number of technological areas, with the limitations typically taking the form of a maximum allowable optical power. These barriers frequently result from the appearance of some parasitic nonlinear phenomenon. As a result, this has inspired a recent thrust in specialty fiber design, but one that is rooted mainly in conventional optical wave propagation methodologies. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these new, and often extremely complicated, waveguide concepts offer only incremental improvements to the systems utilizing them. In this presentation I will discuss a new way of thinking about these limitations, and how it can lead to disruptive and transformative enhancements to optical fiber performance. Ultimately, the ideal fiber, as defined within the context of this talk, is one that allows light to propagate free from nonlinear power limiters.
 Location:  Room 101, Center for High Tech Materials

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