Virtual Tutorial on Spatiotemporal Phenomena in Multimode Optical Fibers
Hosted By: Fiber Optics Technology and Applications Technical Group
16 November 2021 13:00 - 14:30
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)You are invited to join the Optica Technical Group on Fiber Optics Technology and Applications for this virtual tutorial featuring Frank Wise from Cornell University. Optical fibers designed to support multiple transverse modes offer opportunities to study nonlinear wave propagation in a setting that is intermediate between single-mode fiber and free-space propagation. A variety of qualitatively new phenomena have been observed recently in multimode fibers. These include multimode solitons, beam self-cleaning, instabilities, and multimode mode-locking in lasers. After a short tutorial introduction to nonlinear wave propagationin multimode fiber, a few examples of spatiotemporal dynamics will be presented. Current and future directions for research will be mentioned along with potential applications.
About Our Presenter: Frank Wise, Department of Applied Physics at Cornell University
Frank Wise received a BS in Engineering Physics from Princeton University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University. Before PhD studies, he worked on advanced integrated circuits at Bell Laboratories. Since receiving the PhD in 1988, he has been on the faculty in Applied Physics at Cornell.
