Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2001
The two-day Programme was held in the Wong Auditorium in the Tang Center (E-51)
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Speaker
Yoel Fink Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
Abstract The OmniGuide Fiber: From Basic Science to the Marketplace
A review of the basic principles behind the OmniGuide fiber which utilizes a photonic band gap to guide light through a hollow core will be presented. By recognizing the striking similarities as well as identifying some important differences between the electromagnetic mode structure in hollow metal waveguide and the mode structure in the Omniguide fiber we were able to design a waveguide with an unrivaled degree of optical confinement. This fiber may enable ultra low-loss propagation, reduced non-linearities and drastically improved dispersion characteristics. The basic research effort at MIT has led to the formation of a company which is currently exploring the potential applications of this technology to telecommunications.
Biography Yoel Fink is the President of OmniGuide Communications. As a graduate student at the MIT PSFC and Materials Science Department Yoel developed the OmniGuide concept and was a co-inventor of the dielectric omnidirectional mirror. He is the co-author of ten scientific papers and has filed for sixteen US and international patents. Yoel is currently an Assistant Professor at the MIT Materials Science Department. Yoel Fink has a Ph.D. in Materials Science from MIT, a BA in Physics (cum Laude), and a BsC in Chemical Engineering (Magna cum Laude) from the Technion, Israel. The "perfect mirror" Yoel Fink invented last year could mean radical new ways of directing and manipulating light. Potential applications range from a flexible light guide for delivering laser light to a specific internal organ, to new devices for optical communications.
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