JSEP Fellowship.
Abstract
Dr. Mozdy produced many quality publications in his two years as a JSEP Fellow. He made significant advances in the experimental observation of chaotic systems, he interacted with colleagues at Rome Labs and at Phillips Labs, and he has subsequently gone to work for a leading U.S. manufacturer of optical components. Eric Mozdy completed his graduate studies in May, 1998. He defended his thesis, "Chaos in the additive-pulse mode-locked laser" and accepted a position at Corning, Inc., Corning, New York as a Research Scientist in fiber optic devices starting in June, 1998. Dr. Mozdy's research advanced the experimental knowledge of chaotic lasers. Previous to his becoming a JSEP Fellow, he developed a rigourous model of a Chaotic laser which he used to simulate various dynamics of an additive-pulsed Mode-locked laser. This was described in his Master's thesis and was published in Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 1. His PhD work involved experimental verification of his model, and exploration of the chaotic operation of a mode-locked laser. In his work he observed the first Experimental bifurcation plot of the additive-pulse mode-locked system. In his simulations he found that the non-linearity introduced by the optical fiber in the additive-pulse mode-locked laser had a strong effect on the chaotic orbit of the pulse-to-pulse laser operation. By adjusting the coupling strength to the fiber, it was possible to drive the laser from one chaotic orbit to the next. Scanning the fiber coupling allowed Eric to observe a significant portion of the bifurcation diagram for the system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA354839
Entities
People
- Peter Krusius
Organizations
- Cornell University College of Engineering