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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Développement d'architectures de fibres structurées pour l'amplification d'impulsions haute puissance crête / Development of microstructures fibers architectures for high peak power pulses amplification

De Mollerat Du Jeu, Rémi 16 July 2018 (has links)
Dans le cadre d'un contrat CIFRE entre la société Thales L.A.S. France et le laboratoire XLIM (UMR 7252 du CNRS et de l'Université de Limoges), mon projet de thèse consiste à développer des architectures de fibres optiques dopées aux ions d'ytterbium pour l'amplification d'impulsions avec une haute puissance crête à 1 µm dans l'optique de réaliser une combinaison cohérente de faisceau afin d'obtenir une source laser avec une très haute puissance crête et une haute cadence de répétition. Basé sur un design de fibres à large cœur appelées FA-LPF, deux axes de développement sont abordés. Le premier concerne l'amélioration des tolérances à une courbure externe appliquée sur les FA-LPFs. A l'aide d'une étude numérique, une stratégie novatrice est mise en place pour mitigé les effets d'une courbure. L'architecture est alors dénommée FA-LPF assistée par saut d'indice. Une émission laser monomode en régime continu d'une puissance optique de 65 W est démontrée avec un rayon de courbure de 60 cm pour un diamètre de mode de 47 µm. Le second axe est l'implémentation du contrôle de la polarisation dans les FA-LPFs. L'objectif est d'obtenir un signal linéairement polarisé. Plusieurs architectures testées numériquement permettent une propagation à polarisation linéaire unique dans des structures passives sur un large spectre optique, avec notamment une propagation monomode à polarisation unique à 1400 nm pour un diamètre de cœur de 140 µm. La meilleure des quatre, appelée FA-LPF 4+2 SAP, est fabriquée avec des dopants actifs d'ytterbium. En raison de défauts de fabrication, les fibres obtenues sont à maintien de polarisation. Un ratio de polarisation de 17 dB est obtenu en configuration amplification en régime continu avec un gain de 24 dB (une puissance émise de 50 W). / As part of a CIFRE contract between Thales L.A.S. France and the XLIM laboratory (UMR 7252 of the CNRS and the University of Limoges), my thesis project consists in the development of ytterbium-doped optical fiber architectures for pulses amplification with high peak power at a wavelength of 1 µm in order to achieve a coherent beam combination to obtain a laser source with both a very high peak power and a high repetition rate. Based on a large-core fibre design called FA-LPF, two development axes are addressed. The first one concerns the tolerances improvement to an external bending applied on the FA-LPF. With the help of a numerical study, an innovative strategy is implemented to mitigate the effects of bending. The architecture is then called step-index assisted FA-LPF. A single a singlemode laser emission in continuous regime with an optical power of 65 W is demonstrated with a 60 cm bending radius for a 47 µm mode field diameter. The second axis is the implementation of the polarisation control in FA-LPFs. The goal is to obtain a linearly polarised signal. Several numerically tested architectures allow single linear polarisation propagation in passive structures over a broadband optical spectrum, including a singlemode single-polarisation propagation at 1400nm for a core diameter of 140 µm. The best architecture, called FA-LPF 4+2 SAP, is fabricated with active ytterbium dopants. Due to manufacturing defects, the obtained fibres act as polarisation maintaining fibres. A polarisation extinction ratio of 17 dB is obtained in an amplification configuration in continuous regime with 24 dB of gain (an emitted power of 50 W).
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Studies of particle and atom manipulation using free space light beams and photonic crystal fibres

Gherardi, David Mark January 2009 (has links)
Light can exert optical forces on matter. In the macroscopic world these forces are minuscule, but on the microscopic or atomic scale, these forces are large enough to trap and manipulate particles. They may even be used to cool atoms to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. This thesis details a number of experiments concerned with the optical manipulation of atoms and micron-size particles using free space light beams and photonic crystal fibres. Two atom guiding experiments are described. In the first experiment, a spatial light modulator is used to generate higher blue-detuned azimuthal Laguerre-Gaussian LG) beams, which are annular beams with a hollow core. These LG beams are then used to guide laser cooled rubidium-85 atoms within the dark core over a distance of 30 mm. The second atom guiding experiment involves attempting to guide laser cooled and thermal rubidium atoms through a hollow-core photonic crystal fibre using red-detuned light. Hollow-core photonic crystal fibres are fibres that are able to guide light with low attenuation within a hollow core. For this experiment a hot wire detection system was designed, along with a number of complex vacuum systems. The first dual-beam fibre trap for micron-size particles constructed using endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fibre (ESM-PCF) is described. The characteristics of dual-beam fibre traps are governed by the fibres used. As ESM-PCF has considerably different properties in comparison to conventional single- or multimode fibres, this dual beam ESM-PCF trap exhibits some novel characteristics. I show that the dual beam ESM-PCF trap can form trapping, repulsive and line potentials; an interference-free ‘white light’ trap; and a dual-wavelength optical conveyor belt.

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