This webinar will review one-dimensional slab waveguides, two-dimensional annular core fibers, and negative curvature tube lattice fibers to illustrate the guiding mechanism. In addition, the webinar will summarize recent advances in negative curvature fibers that improve the performance of the fibers, including negative curvature that increases confinement, gaps between tubes that increase confinement and bandwidth, additional tubes that decrease mode coupling, tube structures that suppress higher-order modes, nested tubes that increase guidance, and tube parameters that decrease bend loss. Finally, recent applications of negative curvature fibers will be presented, including mid-infrared fiber lasers, micromachining, and surgical procedures, and then future prospects for negative curvature fibers will be discussed.

What You Will Learn:

• Basics of negative curvature fibers and guiding mechanism
• Recent advances in negative curvature fibers
• Applications using negative curvature fibers

Who Should Attend:

• Undergraduate and graduate students
• Educators and professors
• Researchers in the optics and photonics industry

Presenter

Dr. Jonathan Hu, Baylor University

Jonathan Hu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Before he joined Baylor University in 2011, he spent two years as a Research Associate at Princeton University. His research interests include mid-IR supercontinuum generation, chalcogenide glass fibers, photonic crystal fibers, optical amplifiers, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, surface plasmons, and 2D materials. In 2015, he served as a topic co-chair for Mid Infrared Photonics (MIP) in the IEEE Summer Topical Meetings. He received Baylor Young Investigator Development Award in 2015.