Seminar 1st December 2014 1 p.m. 177/2011
Multimode simulation of optical fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
Dr Peter Horak
University of Southampton
- Categories
- NGCM
- Submitter
- Susanne Ufermann Fangohr
Nonlinear self-focusing and defocusing of a high-power laser beam in an optical fibre.
Summary
While traditionally most optical fibre applications employed fibres supporting only a single transverse spatial mode, latest developments are increasingly forcing us to consider larger, multimode fibres. This seminar will look specifically at the demands on spatial control of fibre modes coming from two applications: multimode optical communications and high power fibre lasers. I will give an overview of these challenges and briefly discuss the computational methods that are employed in the design and optimisation of such fibre systems.
Bio
Dr Horak obtained his PhD degree in theoretical quantum optics in 1997 from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He held research positions at the University of Innsbruck, at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, and at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, before joining the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, in 2001. He now holds the position of Associate Professor and heads the Computational Nonlinear Optics group at the ORC. His research interests lie in the theoretical and computational analysis of nonlinear and quantum optics phenomena, in particular in short-pulse propagation, optical fibres, microresonators, and optomechanics.