Publications

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2020

Vertical transport cycling and climatology of MLT constituent (eg Ox, Hx, COx, HOx) distributions, 80-150 km. Heliophysics 2050 White Papers,(2020).

S. Jagannathan, L. Ackerman, W. Chen, N. Yu, M. Cavillon, M. Tuggle, T. W. Hawkins, J. Ballato, and P. D. Dragic, "Random lasing from optical fibers with phase separated glass cores," Opt. Express 28, 22049-22063 (2020).

Jennifer Knall, Magnus Engholm, John Ballato, Peter D. Dragic, Nanjie Yu, and Michel J. F. Digonnet, "Experimental comparison of silica fibers for laser cooling," Opt. Lett. 45, 4020-4023 (2020).

G. Pan, N. Yu, B. Meehan, T. W. Hawkins, J. Ballato, and P. D. Dragic, "Thermo-optic coefficient of B2O3 and GeO2 co-doped silica fibers," Opt. Mater. Express 10, 1509-1521 (2020).

N. Yu, A. E. Mironov, S. Park, M. Tuggle, J. Gragg, C. Kucera, T. Hawkins, J. Ballato, J. G. Eden, and P. D. Dragic, "All-optically-driven and All-optical-fiber Vacuum Gauge via Ytterbium-doped Optical Fiber Microheater," in Optical Fiber Sensors Conference 2020 Special Edition, G. Cranch, A. Wang, M. Digonnet, and P. Dragic, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2020), paper T2B.2.

N. Yu, M. Tuggle, A. E. Mironov, S. Park, J. Gragg, C. Kucera, T. Hawkins, J. G. Eden, J. Ballato, and P. Dragic, "Luminescence-quenched ytterbium-doped optical fiber microheater and its applications (Conference Presentation)," Proc. SPIE 11298, Photonic Heat Engines: Science and Applications II, 1129802 (9 March 2020).

J. Knall, P.-B. Vigneron, M. Engholm, P. Dragic, N. Yu, J. Ballato, M. Bernier, and M.J.F. Digonnet, “Laser cooling in a silica optical fiber at room temperature,” Optics Letters 45(5), pp. 1092 – 1095 (2020).

Invited Paper. A.E. Mironov, N. Yu, S. Park, M. Tuggle. J. Gragg, C. Kucera, T. Hawkins, J. Ballato, J.G. Eden, and P. Dragic, “All optical fiber thermal vacuum gauge,” Journal of Physics: Photonics 2(1), 014006 (2020).

2019

M. Cavillon, P. Dragic, B. Greenberg, S.H. Garofalini, and J. Ballato, “Observation and practical implications of nano-scale phase separation in aluminosilicate glass optical fibers,” Journal of the American Ceramic Society 102(3), pp. 879-883 (2019).

Invited Paper. M. Cavillon, B. Faugas, J. Zhao, C. Kucera, B. Kukuoz, P. Dragic, X. Qiao, J. Du, and J. Ballato, “Investigation of the structural environment and chemical bonding of fluorine in Yb-doped fluorosilicate glass optical fibers,” Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, vol. 128, pp. 119-126 (2019).

Invited Paper. N. Yu, T.W. Hawkins, T.-V. Bui, M. Cavillon, J. Ballato, and P.D. Dragic, “AlPO4 in Silica Glass Optical Fibers: Deduction of Properties,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 11(5), pp. 1-13 (2019).

M. Cavillon, P. Dragic, B. Faugas, T.W. Hawkins, and J. Ballato, “Insights and Aspects to the Modeling of the Molten Core Method for Optical Fiber Fabrication,” Materials 12(18), 2898 (2019).

Invited Paper. M. Cavillon, M. Lancry, B. Poumellec, Y. Wang, J. Canning, K. Cook, T. Hawkins, P. Dragic, and J. Ballato, “Overview of High Temperature Fibre Bragg Gratings and Potential Improvement Using Highly Doped Aluminosilicate Glass Optical Fibres,” Journal of Physics: Photonics 1, 042001 (2019).

M. Tuggle, C. Kucera, T. Hawkins, M. Cavillon, G. Pan, N. Yu, P. Dragic, J. Ballato, “Novel Reactive Molten Core Fabrication Employing in-situ Metal Oxidation: Erbium-Doped Intrinsically Low Brillouin Scattering Optical Fiber,” Optical Materials X, vol. 1, 100009 (2019)./a>

M. Cavillon, P. Dragic, C. Kucera, T.W. Hawkins, and J. Ballato, “Calcium silicate and fluorosilicate optical fibers for high energy laser applications,” Optical Materials Express, vol. 9, pp. 2147 – 2158 (2019).

2018

Review Paper. P. Dragic and J. Ballato, “A Brief Review of Specialty Optical Fibers for Brillouin-Scattering-Based Distributed Sensors," Applied Sciences, vol. 8, no. 10, 1996 (2018).

On List of Most-Read Papers from 2018. Invited Paper. Editor’s Pick Paper. Review Paper. P. Dragic, M. Cavillon, and J. Ballato, “Materials for optical fiber lasers: A review,” Applied Physics Reviews, vol. 5, no. 4, 041301 (2018).

J. Ballato and P. Dragic, “The Materials Science of Optical Nonlinearities and Their Impact on Future Optical Fiber Lasers,” Ann. Materials Sci. Eng. 3(1), 1028 (2018).

N. Yu, M. Cavillon, C. Kucera, T.W. Hawkins, J. Ballato, and P. Dragic, “Less than 1% quantum defect fiber lasers via Yb-doped multicomponent fluorosilicate optical fiber,” Optics Letters, vol. 43, pp. 3096 – 3099 (2018).

M. Cavillon, C. Kucera, T.W. Hawkins, N. Yu, P. Dragic, and J. Ballato, “Ytterbium-Doped Multicomponent Fluorosilicate Optical Fibers with Intrinsically Low Optical Nonlinearities,” Optical Materials Express, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 744-760 (2018).

P. Dragic, M. Cavillon, A. Ballato, and J. Ballato, “A unified materials approach to mitigating optical nonlinearities in optical fiber. II.A. Material additivity models and basic glass properties,” International Journal of Applied Glass Science, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 278-287 (2018).

J. Ballato, M. Cavillon, and P. Dragic, “A unified materials approach to mitigating optical nonlinearities in optical fiber. I. Thermodynamics of optical scattering,” International Journal of Applied Glass Science, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 263-277 (2018).

2017

Editor’s Pick Paper. M. Tuggle, C. Kucera, T. Hawkins, D. Sligh, A.F.J. Runge, A.C. Peacock, P. Dragic, and J. Ballato, “Highly nonlinear yttrium-aluminosilicate optical fiber with high intrinsic stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold,” Optics Letters, vol. 42, no. 23, pp. 4849-4852 (2017).

P. Dragic, M. Cavillon, and J. Ballato, “The linear and nonlinear refractive index of amorphous Al2O3 deduced from aluminosilicate optical fibers,” International Journal of Applied Glass Science, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 421-427 (2017).

M. Cavillon, C. Kucera, T. Hawkins, J. Dawson, P.D. Dragic, and J. Ballato, “A unified materials approach to mitigating optical nonlinearities in optical fiber. III. Materials roadmap,” International Journal of Applied Glass Science, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 447-470 (2017).

P. Dragic, M. Cavillon, A. Ballato, and J. Ballato, “A unified materials approach to mitigating optical nonlinearities in optical fiber. II.B. The optical fiber, material additivity and the nonlinear coefficients,” International Journal of Applied Glass Science, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 307-318 (2017).

P. Dragic, M. Cavillon, and J. Ballato, “On the thermo-optic coefficient of P2O5 in SiO2,” Optical Materials Express, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 3654 – 3661 (2017).

M. Cavillon, P.D. Dragic, and J. Ballato, “Additivity of the coefficient of thermal expansion in silicate optical fibers,” Optics Letters, vol. 42, no. 18, pp. 3650 – 3653 (2017).

Invited Paper.M. Cavillon, C.J. Kucera, T.W. Hawkins, A.F.J. Runge, A.C. Peacock, P.D. Dragic, and J. Ballato, “Oxyfluoride core silica optical fiber with intrinsically low nonlinearities for high energy laser applications,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 284-291 (2017).

J. Ballato and P. Dragic, “On the Clustering of Rare Earth Dopants in Fiber Lasers,” Journal of Directed Energy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 175 - 181 (2017).

2016 & Earlier

Invited Paper. Cover Article. J. Ballato and P. Dragic, “Glass: The Carrier of Light – A Brief History of Optical Fiber,” International Journal of Applied Glass Science, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 413-422 (2016).

P.D. Dragic, C. Ryan, C.J. Kucera, M. Cavillon, M. Tuggle, M. Jones, T.W. Hawkins, A.D. Yablon, R. Stolen, and J. Ballato, “Single- and few-moded lithium aluminosilicate optical fiber for athermal Brilloiuin strain sensing,” Optics Letters, vol. 40, no. 21, pp. 5030 – 5033 (2015).

J. Ballato and P. Dragic, Invited Paper, "Rethinking optical Fiber: New Demands, Old Glasses," Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 96, no. 9, pp. 2675 - 2692, 2013.

P.D. Dragic, P. Foy, T. Hawkins, S. Morris, and J. Ballato, “Sapphire-derived all-glass optical fibers,” Nature Photonics, Vol. 6, pp. 629 – 635, 2012.

C.G. Carlson, P.D. Dragic, R.K. Price, J.J. Coleman, and G.R. Swenson, Invited Paper, “A narrow-linewidth, Yb fiber-amplifier-based upper atmospheric Doppler temperature lidar,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 451 – 461, March/April 2009.