Doctor Stuart Murdoch

Contact details
Building 303, Room 621
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 85871
Email: s.murdoch@auckland.ac.nz

• Nonlinear fiber optics
• Fiber Measurement

The current work in my laboratory revolves around the investigation of parametric processes in optical fibers. Recent results have included:

• the effect of Raman scattering on fiber optical parametric amplifiers - especially the influence of the real part of the Raman susceptibility on phasematched parametric gain
• the demonstration of widely tunable fiber optical parametric oscillators capable of over 100 THz tunablity in both the visible and near IR
• demonstration of broadband parametric gain in a photonic crystal fiber optical parametric amplifier
• a photonic crystal fiber optical parametric oscillator pumped in the near IR.

• Y. Q. Xu, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, and J. D. Harvey, "Widely-tunable photonic crystal fiber fabry-Perot optical parametric amplifier", Optics Letters 33 1351-1353 (2008).
• J. C. C. Wang, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, and J. D. Harvey, "Strong signal suppression in single-pump optical parametric amplifiers", Optics Letters 33 935-937 (2008).
• J. D. Harvey, S. G. Murdoch, S. Coen, R. Leonhardt, D. Mechin and G. K. L. Wong, "Parametric processes in microstructured and highly nonlinear optical fibres", Opt. Quant. Electron. 39 1103-1114 (2008).
• A. S. Y. Hsieh, G. K. L. Wong, S. G. Murdoch, S. Coen, F. Vanholsbeeck, R. Leonhardt, and J. D. Harvey, "Combined effect of Raman and parametric gain on single-pump parametric amplifiers," Opt. Express 15, 8104-8114 (2007).
• G. K. L. Wong, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey, and V. Marie, "High-conversion-efficiency widely-tunable all-fiber optical parametric oscillator," Opt. Express 15, 2947-2952 (2007).
• A. S. Y. Hsieh, S. G. Murdoch, S. Coen, R. Leonhardt, and J. D. Harvey, " Influence of Raman susceptibility on optical parametric amplification in optical fibers", Optics Letters 32, pp 521-523 (2007).
• J. S. Y. Chen, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, and J. D. Harvey, "Effect of dispersion fluctuations on widely tunable optical parametric amplification in photonic crystal fibers," Opt. Express 14, 9491-9501 (2006).
• S. G. Murdoch, D. A. Svendsen, "Distributed measurement of the chromatic dispersion of an optical fiber using a wavelength-tunable OTDR" J. Lightw. Technol. 24 1681-1688 (2006).
• J. S. Y. Chen, G. K. Wong, S. G. Murdoch, R. J. Kruhlak, R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey, N. Y. Joly, and J. C. Knight, "Cross-phase modulation instability in photonic crystal fibers," Optics Letters 31873-875 (2006).
• R. J. Kruhlak, G. K. Wong, J. S. Y. Chen, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey, N. Y. Joly, and J. C. Knight, "Polarization modulation instability in photonic crystal fibers," Optics Letters 311379-1381 (2006).
• O. Alibart, J. Fulconis, G. K. L. Wong, S. G. Murdoch, W. J. Wadsworth, J. G. Rarity, "Photon pair generation using four-wave mixing in a microstructured fibre: theory versus experiment", New J. Phys. 8 67 (2006).
• A. Y. H. Chen, G. K. L. Wong, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell, "Widely tunable optical parametric generation in a photonic crystal fiber," Optics Letters 30 762-764 (2005).
• G. K. L. Wong, A. Y. H. Chen, S. W. Ha, R. J. Kruhlak, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey, and N.Y. Joly, "Characterization of chromatic dispersion in photonic crystal fibers using scalar modulation instability," Opt. Express 13 8662-8670 (2005).
• G. K. L. Wong, A. Y. H. Chen, S. G. Murdoch, R. Leonhardt, J. D. Harvey, N. Y. Joly, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell, "Continuous-wave tunable optical parametric generation in a photonic-crystal fiber," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22 2505-2511 (2005).