Search Results - "Zervas, M.N."

High average power, high repetition rate, picosecond pulsed fiber master oscillator power amplifier source seeded by a gain-switched laser diode at 1060 nm by Dupriez, P., Piper, A., Malinowski, A., Sahu, J.K., Ibsen, M., Thomsen, B.C., Jeong, Y., Hickey, L.M.B., Zervas, M.N., Nilsson, J., Richardson, D.J.

“…We demonstrate a pulsed ytterbium-doped fiber master-oscillator power amplifier source at 1060 nm producing over 300 W of average power in 20-ps pulses at…”
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An efficient inverse scattering algorithm for the design of nonuniform fiber Bragg gratings by Feced, R., Zervas, M.N., Muriel, M.A.

“…Presents an efficient method for the design of complex fiber Bragg gratings. The method relies on the synthesis of the impulse response of the grating by means…”
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A new design approach for fiber DFB lasers with improved efficiency by Yelen, K., Hickey, L.M.B., Zervas, M.N.

“…The standard distributed feedback (DFB) laser optimization method is critically investigated and a new design approach based on the effective cavity length is…”
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Experimentally verified modeling of erbium-ytterbium co-doped DFB fiber lasers by Yelen, K., Hickey, L.M.B., Zervas, M.N.

“…For the first time, the simulation results of fiber distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are compared against experimental data in this paper. The pump source,…”
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Effects of random phase and amplitude errors in optical fiber Bragg gratings by Feced, R., Zervas, M.N.

“…This paper studies the influence of random phase and amplitude fabrication errors on the performance of optical filters based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBG's)…”
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Design considerations in optical add/drop multiplexers based on grating-assisted null couplers by Riziotis, C., Zervas, M.N.

“…The performance of a fully optimized optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM), based on null couplers and tilted Bragg gratings, is studied in detail. It is shown…”
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Novel full-cycle-coupler-based optical add-drop multiplexer and performance characteristics at 40-Gb/s WDM networks by Riziotis, C., Zervas, M.N.

“…A novel configuration of an interferometric device, based on a full-cycle full (100%) coupler structure, loaded with a Bragg grating symmetrically placed into…”
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Forces on a Rayleigh particle in the cover region of a planar waveguide by Ng, L.N., Luff, B.J., Zervas, M.N., Wilkinson, J.S.

“…We report on the optimization of a waveguide structure for the maximization of the radiation forces exerted on a Rayleigh particle in the cover region. The two…”
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Custom design of long chirped Bragg gratings: application to gain-flattening filter with incorporated dispersion compensation by Ibsen, M., Durkin, M.K., Zervas, M.N., Grudinin, A.B., Laming, R.I.

“…We present and experimentally demonstrate simple relationships between the refractive index modulation, the chirp-rate or dispersion and the transmission loss…”
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Nondestructive characterization of fiber couplers by a local perturbation method by Alegria, C., Ghiringhelli, F., Feced, R., Zervas, M.N.

“…A technique for the nondestructive characterization of fiber couplers is demonstrated. A CO/sub 2/ laser beam is scanned along the coupler length inducing a…”
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Power penalties due to in-band and out-of-band dispersion in FBG cascades by Yla-Jarkko, K.H., Zervas, M.N., Durkin, M.K., Barry, I., Grudinin, A.B.

“…We measure the in-band dispersion penalty in a cascade of five 50-GHz low-dispersion linear-phase fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) and compare the results with…”
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Surface plasmon-polariton fiber-optical polarizers using thin-nickel films by Zervas, M.N.

“…High-quality optical fiber polarizers fabricated by depositing thin nickel films on polished fibers are discussed. The polarization extinction is achieved by…”
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Investigation of fiber grating-based performance limits in pulse stretching and recompression schemes using bidirectional reflection from a linearly chirped fiber grating by Taverner, D., Richardson, D.J., Zervas, M.N., Reekie, L., Dong, L., Cruz, J.L.

“…We demonstrate the controlled stretching and recompression of ultrashort optical pulses using bidirectional reflection from both ends of a single linearly…”
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Fiber DFB lasers with ultimate efficiency by Yelen, K., Zervas, M.N., Hickey, L.M.B.

“…A novel method for designing distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with ultimate efficiency is presented. The method is based on the calculation of the optimum…”
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Fiber DFB lasers with ultimate efficiency by Yelen, K, Zervas, M.N, Hickey, L.M.B

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Influence of nonideal chirped fiber grating characteristics on dispersion cancellation by Ennser, K., Ibsen, M., Durkin, M., Zervas, M.N., Laming, R.I.

“…The effect of nonideal dispersion and reflection characteristics of chirped fiber gratings on the performance of 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero-transmission systems…”
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Propulsion of gold nanoparticles on optical waveguides by Ng, L.N, Luff, B.J, Zervas, M.N, Wilkinson, J.S

“…The optimization of potassium ion-exchanged optical waveguides in glass for evanescent field propulsion of colloidal gold nanoparticles is reported. Velocity…”
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Experimental demonstration of a bottle microresonator by Zervas, M.N., Wilkinson, J.S., Murugan, G.S.

“…We demonstrate a very simple technique to fabricate robust micro bottle resonators. Spheroidal WGMs and bottle modes were excited preferentially using a…”
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Acoustooptic attenuation filters based on tapered optical fibers by Feced, R., Alegria, C., Zervas, M.N., Laming, R.I.

“…This paper studies the acoustooptic interaction induced by an acoustic flexural wave among the optical propagation modes supported by tapered optical fibers…”
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8- and 16-channel all-fiber DFB laser WDM transmitters with integrated pump redundancy by Ibsen, M., Shaif-ul Alam, Zervas, M.N., Grudinin, A.B., Payne, D.N.

“…All-fiber DFB-laser-based 8-channel 100-GHz and 16-channel 50-GHz wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) transmitter arrays with integrated pump redundancy are…”
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