Microstructured and Photonic Crystal Optical Fiber Devices Enabling Next Generation Lightwave Systems

Microstructured and Photonic Crystal Optical Fiber Devices
Enabling Next Generation Lightwave Systems

Dr. Benjamin Eggleton

Presenter: Dr. Benjamin Eggleton, from OFS Labs (formerly Bell Labs)

Host: Dr. Henry Lee, at hplee@uci.edu or the Cal(IT)² staff at stuross@uci.edu

Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002

Time: 2:00 PM, Reception to Follow

Location: Engineering Gateway building, room 3311, UCI (directions and parking information)

Abstract
An emerging class of fiber waveguide structures is being used to increase the functionality of fiber devices, enabling new optical components critical to the performance of next generation lightwave networks. These devices rely on advances in the fabrication of optical fiber waveguides, which go beyond the conventional silica design and fall into two general categories: 1) fibers drawn with modified claddings that include non-silica regions throughout their length, including for example photonic crystal fibers; and 2) local modifications to the waveguide after fabrication, including for example fiber devices that incorporate thin film electrodes integrated into the cladding region for efficient thermal/electrical actuation. These novel device structures are enabling new optical functionalities including tunable dispersion compensators, variable optical attenuators, broadband tunable filters, polarization controllers and reconfigurable high power fiber lasers. This talk will focus on the fundamentals of the fiber device structures and review the various applications.

Bio
Dr. Eggleton has contributed widely to both theory and experiment in the fields of tunable fiber gratings, fiber cladding, and fiber optic devices generally. He has published over 60 papers in refereed journals and has filed over 20 patents. In 1998 he was the recipient of the prestigious Adolph Lomb medal from the Optical Society of America, open only to persons under 30. An Australian by birth, Dr. Eggleton earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Sydney in 1996.

Co-sponsored by Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCI and Calit2

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