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".
     

Other MOF related publications:

On cutoffs and operation regimes:

  1. Modal "cutoff" in microstructured optical fibers, B. T. Kuhlmey, R. C. McPhedran, and C. M. de Sterke, Opt. Lett. 27, pp. 1684-1686 (2002).
     
  2. Microstructured optical fibers: where's the edge ?, B. T. Kuhlmey, R. C. McPhedran, C. M. de Sterke, P. A. Robinson, G. Renversez, and D. Maystre, Opt. Express 10, pp. 1285-1290 (2002), http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-22-1285.

On dispersion:

  1. Chromatic dispersion and losses of microstructured optical fibers, B. Kuhlmey, G. Renversez, and D. Maystre, Applied Optics OT 42, pp. 634-639 (2003).
     
  2. Dispersion management with microstructured optical fibers: ultra-flattened chromatic dispersion with low losses, G. Renversez, B. Kuhlmey, and R. McPhedran, Opt. Lett. 28, pp. 989-991, (2003).
     

Note: The copyright to the above publications is owned by the Optical Society of America, Incorporated.  The files are downloadable from the author's personal webpage in accordance with the copyright transfer agreement between the authors and the Optical Society of America, Incorporated.

 

PhD Thesis:

  1. 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).
    Comments: Contains all of the above and more, beware, file takes 24 megs...

Tutorials:

  1. Microstructured Optical Fibres: Principles and Applications, Boris Kuhlmey, Invited Tutorial, ACOFT 2004 (PowerPoint, ~7Megs)

 

 

 

 

 

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