Keywords

specialty fibers, micro optics, selective mode coupling, polarization converting element

Abstract

Although optical fibers and specialty waveguides are the base of majority of today's telecom and light delivery applications, fabrication deformation, nonlinearity and attenuation limit the bandwidth of the data being transmitted or the amount of power carried by these systems. One-way to overcome these limitations without changing the fibers design or fabrication is to engineer the input light in order to excite a certain mode or a group of modes with unique optical properties. Diffractive and micro optics are highly effective for selectively coupling light to specific modes. Using micro optics, mode selective coupling can be achieved through several matching schemes: phase only, phase and amplitude, or phase, amplitude and polarization. The main scope of this work is the design and fabrication of novel optical elements that overcome the limitations of these light delivery systems, as well as the characterization and analysis of their performance both experimentally and using numerical simulation

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Graduation Date

2004

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Johnson, Eric

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

College

College of Optics and Photonics

Degree Program

Optics

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0000171

URL

http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0000171

Language

English

Release Date

December 2004

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)

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