Tunable dispersion and supercontinuum generation in disordered glass-air Anderson localization fiber

S Gausmann, X Hu, J Zhao, MS Habib… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we discuss chromatic dispersion properties of transverse Anderson
localization optical fiber (TALOF) and their implications on broad band supercontinuum (SC) …

Advances in the fabrication of disordered transverse Anderson localizing optical fibers

A Mafi, M Tuggle, C Bassett, E Mobini… - Optical Materials …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Disordered transverse Anderson localizing optical fibers have shown great promise in
various applications from image transport to random lasing. Their success is due to their …

Disorder-induced high-quality wavefront in an Anderson localizing optical fiber

B Abaie, M Peysokhan, J Zhao, JE Antonio-Lopez… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
High-quality coherent wavefronts are extremely useful in optical communications and lasers.
Disorder is usually considered as a source of noise and deviation from ideal designs for …

Observation of optical nonlinearities in an all-solid transverse Anderson localizing optical fiber

M Tuggle, C Bassett, TW Hawkins, R Stolen, A Mafi… - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
An all-solid transverse Anderson localizing optical fiber (TALOF) was fabricated using a
novel combination of the stack-and-draw and molten core methods. Strong Anderson …

Disordered Anderson localization optical fibers for image transport—a review

A Mafi, J Ballato, KW Koch… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disordered optical fibers show novel waveguiding properties, enabled by the transverse
Anderson localization of light, and are used for image transport. The strong transverse …

Multiple-beam propagation in an Anderson localized optical fiber

S Karbasi, KW Koch, A Mafi - Optics Express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the simultaneous propagation of multiple beams in a disordered Anderson
localized optical fiber. The profiles of each beam fall off exponentially, enabling multiple …

Optical characterization of disordered Yb-doped silica glass Anderson localizing optical fiber

C Bassett, M Tuggle, J Ballato, A Mafi - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We investigate and report the optical and laser characteristics of a ytterbium-doped
transverse Anderson localizing optical fiber to develop a fundamental understanding of the …

Review of a Decade of research on disordered Anderson localizing optical fibers

A Mafi, J Ballato - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nearly a decade ago, transverse Anderson localization was observed for the first time in an
optical fiber with a random transverse refractive index profile. This started the development …

Transverse Anderson localization enhancement for low-filling-rate glass–air disordered fibers by optimizing the diameter of air holes

J Zhao, Y Zhao, C He, J Zhang, Y Mao, W Cai, H Luo - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
We demonstrate a method to enhance the transverse Anderson localization (TAL) effect of
the glass–air disordered optical fiber (G-DOF) by adjusting the number and diameter of air …

Solid-state transverse Anderson localized fiber laser

B Topper, C Bassett, A Neumann, M Tuggle… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
For the first time, to our knowledge, an all-solid transverse Anderson localizing optical fiber
laser is demonstrated. A combination of the molten core and stack-and-draw fiber fabrication …