Fabrication and Characterization of Disordered Polymer Optical Fibers for Transverse Anderson Localization of LightSalman Karbasi 1, Ryan J. Frazier 1, Craig R. Mirr 1, Karl W. Koch 2, Arash Mafi 1
1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York
We develop and characterize a disordered polymer optical fiber that uses transverse Anderson localization as a novel waveguiding mechanism. This microstructured fiber can transport a small localized beam with a radius that is comparable to the beam radius of conventional optical fibers.
