Advances in the fabrication of disordered transverse Anderson localizing optical fibers [Invited]

Mafi, Arash; Tuggle, Matthew; Bassett, Cody; Mobini, Esmaeil; Ballato, John

doi:10.1364/ome.9.002769

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“…Finally, the fabrication of ALOFs is also an important topic to explore. PALOF's fabrication has been reported by Mafi's team [99,102]. To fabricate the PALOF, 40,000 polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) strands are randomly mixed with 40,000 polystyrene (PS) strands first.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The optimal GALOF fabrication recipe is still under investigation. The first GALOF was reported by Karbasi et al in 2012, which is drawn from "satin quartz" (Heraeus Quartz) at Clemson University [95,99]. The "satin quartz" is a type of porous artisan glass.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The feature size of air holes varies from 0.2 to 5.5 µm. Chen and Li at Corning Inc. also reported their random air-line GALOFs that were fabricated using the outside vapor deposition process [96,99]. They first create a silica soot blank by soot deposition in the laydown process.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Learning-Based Image Transport Through Disordered Optical Fibers With Transverse Anderson Localization

Zhao

Gausmann

et al. 2021

Front. Phys.

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Fiber-optic imaging systems play a unique role in biomedical imaging and clinical practice due to their flexibilities of performing imaging deep into tissues and organs with minimized penetration damage. Their imaging performance is often limited by the waveguide mode properties of conventional optical fibers and the image reconstruction method, which restrains the enhancement of imaging quality, transport robustness, system size, and illumination compatibility. The emerging disordered Anderson localizing optical fibers circumvent these difficulties by their intriguing properties of the transverse Anderson localization of light, such as single-mode-like behavior, wavelength independence, and high mode density. To go beyond the performance limit of conventional system, there is a growing interest in integrating the disordered Anderson localizing optical fiber with deep learning algorithms. Novel imaging platforms based on this concept have been explored recently to make the best of Anderson localization fibers. Here, we review recent developments of Anderson localizing optical fibers and focus on the latest progress in deep-learning-based imaging applications using these fibers.

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Learning-Based Image Transport Through Disordered Optical Fibers With Transverse Anderson Localization

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Gausmann

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“…One of the main issues related to this class of fiber relies on the ability to prepare long fiber length with invariant transverse random distribution. Several approaches are under investigation and reviewed in this paper [136].…”

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Nano-Structured Optical Fibers Made of Glass-Ceramics, and Phase Separated and Metallic Particle-Containing Glasses

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Vermillac

et al. 2019

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For years, scientists have been looking for different techniques to make glasses perfect: fully amorphous and ideally homogeneous. Meanwhile, recent advances in the development of particle-containing glasses (PCG), defined in this paper as glass-ceramics, glasses doped with metallic nanoparticles, and phase-separated glasses show that these "imperfect" glasses can result in better optical materials if particles of desired chemistry, size, and shape are present in the glass. It has been shown that PCGs can be used for the fabrication of nanostructured fibers-a novel class of media for fiber optics. These unique optical fibers are able to outperform their traditional glass counterparts in terms of available emission spectral range, quantum efficiency, non-linear properties, fabricated sensors sensitivity, and other parameters. Being rather special, nanostructured fibers require new, unconventional solutions on the materials used, fabrication, and characterization techniques, limiting the use of these novel materials. This work overviews practical aspects and progress in the fabrication and characterization methods of the particle-containing glasses with particular attention to nanostructured fibers made of these materials. A review of the recent achievements shows that current technologies allow producing high-optical quality PCG-fibers of different types, and the unique optical properties of these nanostructured fibers make them prospective for applications in lasers, optical communications, medicine, lighting, and other areas of science and industry.Made of glass, optical fibers inherited all positive and negative properties of this material. Glasses are easy and inexpensive to produce on any scale and in any shape, they can possess high chemical stability and mechanical strength, and have high transparency. However, they could hardly compete, for example, with crystalline materials in thermal conductivity, or rare-earth elements' absorption, emission cross-sections, and available transparency range. Recent advances in glass science showed that properties of this material can be significantly improved if some additional phases are formed or impregnated in the glass. In particular, advances have been achieved in the development of particle-containing glasses: glass-ceramic materials, glasses doped with metallic nanoparticles, and phase-separated glasses. To date, these particle-containing glasses have become quite common and actively used in case of the bulk materials, but are still rather new for fiber optics.The purpose of this review is to summarize recent advances in the fabrication of structured fibers made of particle-containing glasses, their potential benefits, their actual properties, and their potential applications. The review covers three types of particle-containing glasses (PCG): crystalline dielectric particles, i.e., glass-ceramics; metallic nanoparticles (MeNPs); and dielectric amorphous particles, i.e., phase-separated glasses.First, we consider properties of the PCG bulk materials, their potenti...

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Quantum light transport in phase-separated Anderson localization fiber

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Propagation of light by Anderson localization has been demonstrated in micro-nano-structured fibers. In this work, we introduce a phase separated glass Anderson localization optical fiber for quantum applications. By using a spontaneous parametric down-conversion source, multi-photon detection with a single-photon avalanche diode array camera, and signal post-processing techniques, we demonstrate quantum light transport, where spatial correlations between photon pairs are preserved after propagation. In order to better understand and improve light transport, we study light localization, observing a dependence on wavelength. Our results indicate that the proposed phase separated fiber may become an effective platform for quantum imaging and communication.

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Advances in the fabrication of disordered transverse Anderson localizing optical fibers [Invited]

Cited by 9 publications

References 44 publications

Learning-Based Image Transport Through Disordered Optical Fibers With Transverse Anderson Localization

Learning-Based Image Transport Through Disordered Optical Fibers With Transverse Anderson Localization

Nano-Structured Optical Fibers Made of Glass-Ceramics, and Phase Separated and Metallic Particle-Containing Glasses

Quantum light transport in phase-separated Anderson localization fiber

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