Ultrafast Optical Parametric Processes in Photonic Crystal Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications: Dissertation defense by Chenji Gu

Lecture/Seminar - Natural Sciences | November 1 | 4:45-5:45 p.m. | Science and Engineering Building 1, SEB 300

Location:  5200 North Lake Rd, Merced, CA 95343

Speaker: Chenji Gu, Graduate Student, School of Natural Sciences

Sponsor: School of Natural Sciences

Chenji Gu, a graduate student in the School of Natural Sciences, will offer a dissertation defense based on the fundamentals and applications of ultrafast optical parametric processes in photonic crystal fibers.

Facilitated by the advent of photonic crystal fibers two decades ago, moded-locked fiber lasers become the new trend in ultrafast light sources. But they have major limitations in output wavelength range and pulse quality.

Motivated by building widely tunable ultrashort light sources, this thesis focuses on the experimental and theoretical studies of fiber optical parametric process. As one important application of this process, the fiber optical parametric oscillator promises to address the shortcomings of fiber lasers.

Event Contact: Professor Jay Sharping, jsharping@ucmerced.edu, 209-228-4049