This Letter presents a method for the fast and broad wavelength sweeping of a standard setup of a diode’s active region and its immediate vicinity, which contain the diode’s optical feedback system. The selective and rapid heating of the active Read More …
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All-optical, all-fiber, thermal conductivity sensor for identificationand characterization of fluids
This paper presents a miniature, all-optical, thermal conductivity fiber-optic sensor, which can be applied to various fluid composition identification situations. The sensor is composed of a short section of highly absorbing fiber, which is configured as a Fabry-Perot interferometer. A Read More …
In-line higher order mode filters based on long highly uniform fiber tapers
This paper presents a simple and effective design of taper-based higher order mode (HOM) filters that can effectively remove HOMs from the few-mode fibers. For this purpose, a taper manufacturing technique that allows the production of long and highly uniform Read More …
All-fiber micromachined microcell
This Letter presents an open-path, all-fiber microcell and a micromachining method for its production. The proposed micromachining method utilizes the selective etching of a purposely designed phosphorus-doped fiber that is spliced in between two standard lead-in fibers. Microcells with various Read More …
Optical fiber for dispersion addressing
This letter presents a fully distributed forward propagating system, suitable for use with microbend sensors. The principle relies on selected mode launch in specially designed multimode fiber where a short pulse is launched into the fundamental mode. In the presence Read More …
Opportunities to Enhance Multimode Fiber Links by Application of Overfilled Launch
This paper investigates possibilities for the practical design of high-performance multimode fibers (MMFs) that can provide bandwidths in excess of 10 GHz …km in an overfilled regime of operation. Analysis of standard MMF in an overfilled launch demonstrates that the Read More …
All-optical, thermo-optical path length modulation based on the vanadium-doped fibers
This paper presents an all-fiber, fully-optically controlled, optical-path length modulator based on highly absorbing optical fiber. The modulator utilizes a high-power 980 nm pump diode and a short section of vanadium-co-doped single mode fiber that is heated through absorption and Read More …
Microbend sensor structure for use in distributed and quasi-distributed sensor systems based on selective launching and filtering of the modes in graded index multimode fiber
This paper describes a novel optical fiber microbend sensor architecture which my be utilized in distributed and quasi-distributed measurement. The actual sensor element is graded index multimode fiber coupled to the measurand field through the usual microbend inducing structures. However, Read More …
Propagation of the fundamental mode in curved graded index multimode fiber and its application in sensor systems
A novel principle of light transmission through very small radius bend in optical fibers is presented. The potential applications of the proposed structure are fiber optic sensors and other fiber optic systems. The design makes use of graded index multimode Read More …
Fiber-optic microbend sensor structure
We proposed and experimentally investigated a novel microbend sensor structure. The structure is composed of single-mode leads and multimode sensing fiber. The proposed structure exhibited a level of sensitivity as much as six times higher than that of the classical Read More …