The CUDOS MOF Utilities and MOF related publications

The CUDOS MOF Utilities can be downloaded from the CUDOS@Usyd website.

Publications the CUDOS MOF software is based on:

  1. Multipole method for microstructured optical fibers I : formulation, T. P. White, B. T. Kuhlmey, R. C. McPhedran, D. Maystre, G. Renversez, C. Martijn de Sterke, and L. C. Botten , J. Opt. Soc. B. 19, pp. 2322-2330 (2002).
    Comments: This paper describes the multipole formulation used in the CUDOS MOF Utilities in detail. It also includes the analysis of a simple example (a MOF with six holes placed on the corners of a hexagon) included in the samples provided in the CUDOS MOF Utilities package. It is not required to understand the mathematics of this paper to be able to use the CUDOS MOF Utilities at a basic level. However, to fully understand the results (especially regarding accuracy) provided by the CUDOS MOF Utilities, it is important to understand the contents of this paper. Note that a few typos were corrected in a later erratum, see next paper.
  1. Multipole method for microstructured optical fibers I. formulation : Errata , T. P. White, B. T. Kuhlmey, R. C. McPhedran, D. Maystre, G. Renversez, C. Martijn de Sterke, and L. C. Botten , J. Opt. Soc. B. 20, p. 1581 (2003).
    Comments: This erratum corrects 3 equations which contained typos in the original paper above.     
     
  2. Multipole method for microstructured optical fibers II : implementation and results, B. T. Kuhlmey, T. P. White, G. Renversez, D. Maystre, L. C. Botten, C. Martijn de Sterke, and R. C. McPhedran, J. Opt. Soc. B. 19, pp. 2331-2340 (2002).
    Comments: This paper details the implementation of the mutlipole method as used in the CUDOS MOF Utilities. Reading and understanding this paper is important to fully understand eg how the CUDOS MOF Utilities finds a mode, convergence issues, or what the Wijngaard test means.
     
  3. Bloch method for the analysis of modes in microstructured optical fiber, B. T. Kuhlmey, R. C. McPhedran and C. M. de Sterke, Optics Express 12, 1769-1774 (2004).
    http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-8-1769 
    Comments: This paper introduces the "Bloch transform" for analysing MOF modes, which is implemented in the CUDOS MOF Utilities graphic field explorer "WinField.exe".

Features of more recent version of the software are based on:

 

  1. Multipole analysis of photonic crystal fibers with coated inclusions, Boris T. Kuhlmey, Karrnan Pathmanandavel, and Ross C. McPhedran,  Opt. Express 14, 10851-10864 (2006)
    http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-14-22-10851
    Comments: This paper introduces formalism used for “coated inclusions.”

  2. Modelling of photonic crystal fiber based on layered inclusions, Thomas Grujic, Boris T. Kuhlmey, C. Martijn de Sterke, and Chris G. Poulton,  J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26, 1852-1861 (2009)
    http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-26-10-1852
    Comments: This paper introduces the method used by the software for calculating modes of fibres with arbitrary circularily symmetric index profiles for each inclusion

  3. Differential multipole method for microstructured optical fibers, S. Campbell, R. C. McPhedran, C. Martijn de Sterke, and L. C. Botten,  J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 1919-1928 (2004)
    http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-21-11-1919
    Comments: This paper presents the formalism used by the software for calculating modes of fibres with elliptical inclusions.

  4. Improved symmetry analysis of many-moded microstructure optical fibers, John M. Fini,  J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 1431-1436 (2004)
    http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-21-8-1431

Comments: This paper discusses the benefits of using C6 instead of C6v symmetry for calculating the fundamental mode of sixfold symmetric fibres, and describes the symmetry classes implemented in newer version of the software (“c6fini” in Winfield).

  1. Perturbative numerical modeling of microstructure fibers, John Fini, Opt. Express 12, 4535-4545 (2004)
    http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-12-19-4535

Comments: Newer versions of the software enable perturbative initial guesses of effective index of modes to study changes in geometry or wavelength. The perturbative formalism used is based on this paper.

PhD Thesis:

10.  Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of the Physics of Microstructured Optical Fibres, B. T. Kuhlmey, PhD Thesis, School of Physics,
University of Sydney, Australia and Université de Droit, d’Économie et des Sciences d’Aix-Marseille (Aix Marseille III), France (2003, 2004).