The topic of this thesis is development ofdevices fortelecom applications based on poled optical fibers. The focusis on two different specific functions, wavelength conversionand optical switching. Optical switching is demonstrated in a poled optical fiberat telecom wavelengths (~1.55 mm). The fiber has two holesrunning along the core in which electrodes are inserted. Thefiber device is made electro-optically active with a polingprocess in which a strong electric field is recorded in thefiber at a temperature of 270 o C. The fiber is then put in onearm of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and by applying a voltageacross the two electrodes in the fiber the refractive index ismodulated and the optical signal switched from one output portto the other. So far the lowest switching voltage achieved is~1600 V which is too high for a commercial device, but byoptimizing the design of the fiber and the poling process aswitching voltage as low as 50 V is aimed for. A method to deposit a thin silver electrode inside the holesof an optical fiber is also demonstrated. A new way of creatingperiodic electrodes by periodically ablating the silver filmelectrode inside the holes of an optical fiber is also shown.The periodic electrodes can be used to create a quasi-phasematched (QPM) nonlinearity in the fiber which is useful forincreasing the efficiency of a nonlinear process such aswavelength conversion. Poling of a fiber with silver electrodesshowed a huge increase in the nonlinearity. This could be dueto a resonant enhancement caused by silver nanoclusters. <b>Keywords:</b>Poling, twinhole fiber, fiber electrodes,silver film electrodes, silver diffusion, quasi-phase matching,optical switching, frequency conversion, optical modulation / NR 20140805

<p>The topic of this thesis is the development of devices for telecom applications based on poled optical fibers. The focus is on a specific function, optical switching/modulation.</p><p>Some of the most important results are summarized below. Optical switching at telecom wavelengths (1.55 μm) is demonstrated in an all-fiber switch based on a fiber with internal electrodes. The fiber is made electro-optically active with a thermal poling process in which a strong electric field is recorded in the glass at a temperature of 255 °C. After poling, the fiber is put in one arm of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and by applying a voltage across the two electrodes the refractive index is modulated and the optical signal switched from one output port to the other. A switching voltage of 190 V at 1550 nm was achieved, which to the best of our knowledge is the lowest value reported. By carefully matching the lengths of the fibers in the two arms of the interferometer the optical bandwidth could be made as large as 20 nm. The extinction ratio, determined by the power ratio in the two arms, was 30 dB and the highest modulation frequency was 30 MHz. Poled fibers were packaged to increase the thermal and mechanical stability and to make handling easier. 40 Gb/s transmission test through the device showed no bit-error-rate performance degradation. Protection switching of a 10 Gb/s signal is also demonstrated.</p><p>The depletion region in a poled fiber was found to be wedge-shaped and very wide, 13 μm and completely overlapped with the core. In a time-resolved poling experiment the recorded electric field was measured. The sign of the field changed after ~20 min, when the depletion region passed through the core, which led to the conclusion that an electric field is present also outside of the depletion region.</p><p>A ring laser was constructed with an erbium doped fiber as the gain medium. A fiber modulator was placed inside the cavity and when a small RF signal, with a frequency matched to the cavity ground frequency, was applied to the modulator the laser was modelocked. The output pulse train contained pulses of sub ns duration and is the first demonstration of mode-locking using poled fibers.</p><p>A sampled grating with 16 channels spaced by 50 GHz was inserted into the cavity. The fiber modulator had optical bandwidth of 7 nm with center wavelength that depends on the applied voltage. By applying of 10 – 210 V to the modulator it was possible to tune the laser to 11 of the 16 channels for a total tuning range of over 4 nm.</p><p>A scheme to deposit 1 μm thin silver electrodes inside the holes of an optical fiber is demonstrated together with a new method of creating periodic electrodes by periodically ablating the silver film electrodes. The periodic electrodes are used to create a quasi-phase matched (QPM) nonlinearity in a fibers which is showed in a proof of principle experiment.</p>

O propósito deste trabalho tem sido a utilização das técnicas de Desenho Óptico para o desenvolvimento de sistemas ópticos altamente otimizados. Após a confeccção destes sistemas ópticos torna-se necessário avaliar o desempenho do sistema construído, para isto tem sido utilizado uma das técnicas mais modernas para avaliação de qualidade da imagem óptica, a função de transferência óptica FTO, mais especificamente a função de transferência de modulação FTM. FTM representa o módulo da função complexa FTO e está associada à medida direta e quantitativa da qualidade de imagem, descrevendo a estrutura da imagem como uma função da freqüência espacial. Estas duas técnicas são as ferramentas fundamentais para os desenhistas ópticos. Instrumentos oftálmicos como o microscópio cirúrgico, sistema óptico para adaptação de uma câmera CCD e a lâmpada de fenda são desenvolvidos e analisados por estas técnicas neste trabalho. / The purpose of this work has been the use of design optical techniques to development of highly optimized optical systems. After the fabrication of these systems, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of building systems. A modern technique used to evaluate the quality of optical image is the optical transfer function OTF, more exactly the modulation transfer function MTF. MTF is the modulus of the complex function OTF. MTF is associated the direct and quantitative measure of the image quality and it describes the image structure as a function of spatial frequency. This bides techniques are the tools of optical designers. Ophthalmic instruments like surgery microscope, optical system of CCD camera adaptation and slit lamps are developed and analyzed for this techniques in this work.

The topic of this thesis is the development of devices for telecom applications based on poled optical fibers. The focus is on a specific function, optical switching/modulation. Some of the most important results are summarized below. Optical switching at telecom wavelengths (1.55 μm) is demonstrated in an all-fiber switch based on a fiber with internal electrodes. The fiber is made electro-optically active with a thermal poling process in which a strong electric field is recorded in the glass at a temperature of 255 °C. After poling, the fiber is put in one arm of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and by applying a voltage across the two electrodes the refractive index is modulated and the optical signal switched from one output port to the other. A switching voltage of 190 V at 1550 nm was achieved, which to the best of our knowledge is the lowest value reported. By carefully matching the lengths of the fibers in the two arms of the interferometer the optical bandwidth could be made as large as 20 nm. The extinction ratio, determined by the power ratio in the two arms, was 30 dB and the highest modulation frequency was 30 MHz. Poled fibers were packaged to increase the thermal and mechanical stability and to make handling easier. 40 Gb/s transmission test through the device showed no bit-error-rate performance degradation. Protection switching of a 10 Gb/s signal is also demonstrated. The depletion region in a poled fiber was found to be wedge-shaped and very wide, 13 μm and completely overlapped with the core. In a time-resolved poling experiment the recorded electric field was measured. The sign of the field changed after ~20 min, when the depletion region passed through the core, which led to the conclusion that an electric field is present also outside of the depletion region. A ring laser was constructed with an erbium doped fiber as the gain medium. A fiber modulator was placed inside the cavity and when a small RF signal, with a frequency matched to the cavity ground frequency, was applied to the modulator the laser was modelocked. The output pulse train contained pulses of sub ns duration and is the first demonstration of mode-locking using poled fibers. A sampled grating with 16 channels spaced by 50 GHz was inserted into the cavity. The fiber modulator had optical bandwidth of 7 nm with center wavelength that depends on the applied voltage. By applying of 10 – 210 V to the modulator it was possible to tune the laser to 11 of the 16 channels for a total tuning range of over 4 nm. A scheme to deposit 1 μm thin silver electrodes inside the holes of an optical fiber is demonstrated together with a new method of creating periodic electrodes by periodically ablating the silver film electrodes. The periodic electrodes are used to create a quasi-phase matched (QPM) nonlinearity in a fibers which is showed in a proof of principle experiment. / QC 20101015

This dissertation is focused on the interaction between femtosecond laser and patterned two-dimensional gold nanostructures. The sample was prepared by two different lithographic techniques, the nanosphere lithography and the electron beam lithography. Characterization was carried out with scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and UV-vis absorption spectroscopy. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy was used to answer a number of fundamental questions regarding the laser-nanostructure interaction. Under a low density irradiation of a femtosecond laser, we examined the effect of the lattice crystallinity on the electron-phonon relaxation in monolayer periodic array nanoparticles prepared with nanosphere lithography. We found that the electron-phonon relaxation rate was faster in polycrystalline nanoparticles and decreases greatly in single crystalline nanospheres, which is explained by the presence of high density grain boundaries. The ultrafast laser-induced coherent phonon oscillations in patterned gold nanoparticles are also fully characterized. We studied the effect of size, shape, thickness, monitoring wavelength, and materials of the prismatic array nanoparticles on the period of their coherent phonon oscillations. In a gold nanodisk pair system, we found that the fractional change in the vibration frequency increases exponentially with decreasing the ratio of the interparticle separation to the particle diameter, which is explained by the coupling of the induced electric field in one nanodisk by the strong surface plasmon field of its pair partner. Based on the coherent phonon oscillation of gold caps on a polystyrene sphere monolayer array, a new all-optical gigahertz modulation technique is developed. Under a high density irradiation of a femtosecond laser, the melting and ablation processes can be induced in gold nanoparticles. We studied femtosecond laser induced shape and localized surface plasmon resonance band changes of gold prismatic array nanoparticles. We also observed that the femtosecond laser irradiation of the nanoprisms at the surface plasmon resonance absorption maximum can cause them to detach from the substrate and 'fly away'. Atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy measurements revealed that the displaced nanoparticles are thinner and smaller than the undisplaced ones, which supports an atomic ablation mechanism.

O propósito deste trabalho tem sido a utilização das técnicas de Desenho Óptico para o desenvolvimento de sistemas ópticos altamente otimizados. Após a confeccção destes sistemas ópticos torna-se necessário avaliar o desempenho do sistema construído, para isto tem sido utilizado uma das técnicas mais modernas para avaliação de qualidade da imagem óptica, a função de transferência óptica FTO, mais especificamente a função de transferência de modulação FTM. FTM representa o módulo da função complexa FTO e está associada à medida direta e quantitativa da qualidade de imagem, descrevendo a estrutura da imagem como uma função da freqüência espacial. Estas duas técnicas são as ferramentas fundamentais para os desenhistas ópticos. Instrumentos oftálmicos como o microscópio cirúrgico, sistema óptico para adaptação de uma câmera CCD e a lâmpada de fenda são desenvolvidos e analisados por estas técnicas neste trabalho. / The purpose of this work has been the use of design optical techniques to development of highly optimized optical systems. After the fabrication of these systems, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of building systems. A modern technique used to evaluate the quality of optical image is the optical transfer function OTF, more exactly the modulation transfer function MTF. MTF is the modulus of the complex function OTF. MTF is associated the direct and quantitative measure of the image quality and it describes the image structure as a function of spatial frequency. This bides techniques are the tools of optical designers. Ophthalmic instruments like surgery microscope, optical system of CCD camera adaptation and slit lamps are developed and analyzed for this techniques in this work.

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In den letzten Jahren dominierten elektronikbasierte künstliche neuronale Netzwerke (KNN) die Computertechnik. Mit zunehmender Komplexität der Aufgaben stoßen konventionelle elektronische Architekturen jedoch an ihre Grenzen. Optische Ansätze bieten daher Lösungen durch analoge Berechnungen unter Verwendung von Materialien, die optische Signale zur synaptischen Plastizität steuern. Diese Studie untersucht daher die synaptischen Funktionen von photo- und elektrochrome Materialien für KNN. Das Modulationsverhalten des Moleküls Diarylethen (DAE) auf Oberflächenplasmonen wird in der Kretschmann-Konfiguration untersucht. Optische Impulsfolgen ermöglichen synaptische Plastizität wie Langzeitpotenzierung und -depression. DAE-Modulation und Informationsübertragung bei unterschiedlichen Wellenlängen ermöglichen simultane Lese- und Schreibvorgänge und demonstrieren die nichtflüchtige Informationsspeicherung in plasmonischen Wellenleitern. Die Integration von DAE in einem Y-Wellenleiter bildet somit ein vollständig optisches neuronales 2x1-Netzwerk. Synaptische Funktionen, die sich in DAE-Schaltvorgängen widerspiegeln, können somit in der Wellenleiterübertragung angewendet werden. Das Netzwerktraining für Logikgatter wird durch Gradientenverfahren erreicht, um UND- oder ODER-Funktionen auszuführen. Elektrochrome Materialien in Wellenleitern ermöglichen optoelektronische Modulation. Die Kombination von gelartigem Polymer-Elektrolyt PS-PMMA-PS:[EMIM][TFSI] mit PEDOT:PSS ermöglicht eine elektrisch-gesteuerte Absorptionsmodulation. Eine binäre komplementäre Steuerung von Übertragungen und somit auch optisches Multiplexing in Y-Wellenleitern können dadurch demonstriert werden. Der feste Polymer-Elektrolyt PEG:NaOtf ermöglicht eine optische Signalmodulation für neuromorphes Computing. Mithilfe von analog gesteuertes Gradientenverfahren kann daher in einem Y-Wellenleiter lineare Klassifikation, ohne die Verwendung von zusätzlichen Speicher- oder Prozesseinheiten, antrainiert werden. / In recent years, electronic-based artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been dominant in computer engineering. However, as tasks grow complex, conventional electronic architectures reach their limits. Optical approaches therefore offer solutions through analog calculations using materials controlling optical signals for synaptic plasticity. This study explores photo- and electrochromic materials for synaptic functions in ANNs. The switching behavior of the molecule diarylethene (DAE) affecting Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) is studied in the Kretschmann configuration. Optical pulse sequences enable synaptic plasticity like long-term potentiation and depression. DAE modulation and information transfer at distinct wavelengths allow simultaneous read and write processes, demonstrating non-volatile information storage in plasmonic waveguides. DAE integration into Y-branch waveguides forms full-optical neural 2x1 networks. Synaptic functions, reflected in DAE switching, can be thus applied in waveguide transmission. Network training for logic gates is achieved using gradient descent method to adapt AND or OR gate functions based on the learning set. Electrochromic materials in waveguides enable optoelectronic modulation. Combining gel-like polymer electrolyte PS-PMMA-PS:[EMIM][TFSI] with PEDOT:PSS allows electrical modulation, demonstrating binary complementary control of transmissions and optical multiplexing in Y-branch waveguides. The solid polymer electrolyte PEG:NaOtf enables optical signal modulation for neuromorphic computing, thereby facilitating the adaptation of linear classification in Y-branch waveguides without the need for additional storage or processing units.

This paper presents a brief study of the two most commonly used topologies - segmented and traveling-wave - for realizing monolithically integrated electro-optical transmitters consisting of Si-photonics Mach-Zehnder modulators and their electrical drivers. To this end, two new transmitters employing high swing breakdown voltage doubler drivers were designed in the aforementioned topologies and compared with regard to their extinction ratio and DC power consumption at the data rate of 30 Gb/s. It is shown that for the targeted data rate and extinction ratio, a considerably lower power consumption can be achieved with the traveling-wave topology than with its segmented counterpart. The transmitters were realized in a 250 nm SiGe BiCMOS electronic-photonic integrated technology.

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