PhD Final Defense of Nenad Bozinovic

PhD defense: Orbital angular momentum in optical fibers -- Date: Monday, April 8, 2013, 1:00pm, 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Room 339 -- Chair: Ayse Coskun (ECE); Advisor: Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE) Committee: Steven Golowich (MIT Lincoln Laboratory); Luca Dal Negro (ECE); Selim Unlu, (ECE) --- This dissertation studies light with nonzero orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a special class of fibers. The presented results demonstrate OAM states to be long lived over a kilometer length of fiber. Data transmission experiments using these states indicate that OAM could be considered an additional degree of freedom for data multiplexing in future optical fiber communication links.

When 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Monday, April 8, 2013
Building 8 Saint Mary's Street, PHO 339
Fees Free