Termination of special optical fibers for their integration in high performance laser system

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Dupriez

2006 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 701-703
Author(s):  
J. D. Zuegel ◽  
V. Bagnoud ◽  
J. Bromage ◽  
I. A. Begishev ◽  
J. Puth


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Gonzalez-Valencia ◽  
Ignacio Del Villar ◽  
Pedro Torres

AbstractWith the goal of ultimate control over the light propagation, photonic crystals currently represent the primary building blocks for novel nanophotonic devices. Bloch surface waves (BSWs) in periodic dielectric multilayer structures with a surface defect is a well-known phenomenon, which implies new opportunities for controlling the light propagation and has many applications in the physical and biological science. However, most of the reported structures based on BSWs require depositing a large number of alternating layers or exploiting a large refractive index (RI) contrast between the materials constituting the multilayer structure, thereby increasing the complexity and costs of manufacturing. The combination of fiber–optic-based platforms with nanotechnology is opening the opportunity for the development of high-performance photonic devices that enhance the light-matter interaction in a strong way compared to other optical platforms. Here, we report a BSW-supporting platform that uses geometrically modified commercial optical fibers such as D-shaped optical fibers, where a few-layer structure is deposited on its flat surface using metal oxides with a moderate difference in RI. In this novel fiber optic platform, BSWs are excited through the evanescent field of the core-guided fundamental mode, which indicates that the structure proposed here can be used as a sensing probe, along with other intrinsic properties of fiber optic sensors, as lightness, multiplexing capacity and easiness of integration in an optical network. As a demonstration, fiber optic BSW excitation is shown to be suitable for measuring RI variations. The designed structure is easy to manufacture and could be adapted to a wide range of applications in the fields of telecommunications, environment, health, and material characterization.



2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Samuel Ángel Jaramillo Flórez ◽  
Yuli Fernanda Achipiz

The bioelectronics takes of the biology the optimized elements for to do a copy and to build technological mechanisms with functions based in that of body lives components. Telecommunications and biology present an analogy between the optical receivers and insects eyes, which forms are adequate to receipt signal since a transmitter, and these are been leaded to perfection by the nature during millions of years in the environment adaptation. The sizes and the forms depend of the direction of the waves and of the radiation pattern of these biotransmitters and bioreceivers (omatidies of insects eyes), which is similar as the optical communications emitters and photodetectors. The growth of the telecommunication services makes necessary the optimization of the bandwidth of the transmission channels. Although the optic transmission is considered like the ideal as for the attenuation and distortion characteristics that make that it possesses the better relation bandwidth - longitude, the demand of more transmission capacity forces to take advantage of them efficiently. High costs generated when deploying Optic Fiber Networks at the transport level, together with other factors that avoid PONs arriving to the home and/or office, have impulsed the design and implementation of partially optical networks (FITL), including an alternative that uses infrared light. This work explores the basis of these news access networks, and it is presented an optical communication transmission/reception system with optic channel of free space where has been modulated the transmitter laser through a set of spherical lens and optical fibers that expand the beam of light to different points of an indoor enclosure producing multiple punctual images located in positions that permit to determine and to optimize the bandwidth of the system. The computational simulation results are showed and are compared with those experimentally measured, indicating that this is an original method for to design emitters and receivers of high performance for optical communications.



2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
王恒坤 WANG Heng-kun ◽  
张国玉 ZHANG Guo-yu ◽  
郭立红 GUO Li-hong ◽  
刘廷霞 LIU Ting-xia ◽  
王兵 WANG Bing ◽  
...  


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1975
Author(s):  
Florian Jakobs ◽  
Kristoffer Harms ◽  
Jana Kielhorn ◽  
Daniel Zaremba ◽  
Pen Yiao Ang ◽  
...  

For most kinds of active polymer optical fibers, a homogeneous distribution of dye molecules over the entire fiber length and cross section is required. In this study, chemical bonding of dyes to poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) by copolymerization is achieved within the polymerization process instead of dissolving the dyes in the monomers. In combination with an improved fabrication mechanism, this leads to homogeneous dye distribution within the preforms. A method for proving the integration of the dyes into the polymer chains has been developed using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). Prestructured core-cladding preforms with dye-doped poly(cylohexyl methacrylate-co-methyl methacrylate)-core have been prepared with the Teflon string technique and were heat-drawn to few mode fibers.



2015 ◽  
Vol 801 ◽  
pp. 303-311
Author(s):  
Florin Breaban ◽  
Roger Debuchy ◽  
Didier Defer

The applications of high performance materials in the aerospace and in the automotive technology in the next years need to develop new vibration study, nondestructive testing, predictive maintenance and industrial control methods.The Laser Scanning Vibrometry and Holographic Interferometry methods of vibration study and nondestructive testing by modal analysis are described. The Laser Scanning Vibrometer PSV 400 is made by Polytec GmbH and the PSV software reconstructs the 3D model of the measured micro-deformation of the object. The holographic laser system HLS-3 from Lumonics Inc. has 100 MW ruby laser peak power and 30 ns pulse width.Using mechanical excitation to induce a measurable vibration, the Laser Scanning Vibrometry and Holographic Interferometry modal analysis measurements show up the vibrational signatures and the damaged areas of the objects made by high performance materials - polymers, composites.



2007 ◽  
Vol 1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Budy ◽  
Scott T. Iacono ◽  
Wade Hawkins ◽  
Paul Foy ◽  
John Ballato ◽  
...  

AbstractThere is a growing need for optical fiber coatings that can sustain higher temperatures than present materials permit. To date, polyimides are used predominantly but they generally are difficult to process and usually require multiple depositions to achieve the desired film thickness. Perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) aryl ether polymers have demonstrated much success as processable and amorphous fluoropolymers,[1] with particular emphasis on high performance optical applications.[2] This work discusses recent efforts into perfluorocyclobutyl aryl ether polymer-based optical fiber coatings.[3] A series of silica-based optical fibers were drawn with differing PFCB polymer coatings compositions and molecular weights on a Heathway draw tower. Results include a more than doubled usage temperature of coating (decomposition temperatures (Td) in nitrogen and air were above 450 °C) without affecting fiber mechanical properties and comparable isothermal stability to conventional coatings, except with a >150 °C higher temperature. Preliminary results of the first successful coating of optical fibers by PFCB polymers will be presented herein, as well as future endeavors.



2020 ◽  
pp. 102076
Author(s):  
Danial Navabi ◽  
Mahyar Javidruzi ◽  
Mohamad Reza Hafezi ◽  
Amir Mosavi


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1367
Author(s):  
Stefan Rothe ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Nektarios Koukourakis ◽  
Jürgen W. Czarske

Multimode fibers are regarded as the key technology for the steady increase in data rates in optical communication. However, light propagation in multimode fibers is complex and can lead to distortions in the transmission of information. Therefore, strategies to control the propagation of light should be developed. These strategies include the measurement of the amplitude and phase of the light field after propagation through the fiber. This is usually done with holographic approaches. In this paper, we discuss the use of a deep neural network to determine the amplitude and phase information from simple intensity-only camera images. A new type of training was developed, which is much more robust and precise than conventional training data designs. We show that the performance of the deep neural network is comparable to digital holography, but requires significantly smaller efforts. The fast characterization of multimode fibers is particularly suitable for high-performance applications like cyberphysical systems in the internet of things.



1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Shaw ◽  
B. Edwards ◽  
G.J. Hirst ◽  
C.J. Hooker ◽  
M.H. Key ◽  
...  

This article describes the current status of the KrF development programme based on the Sprite laser system at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. High reliability and high shot rate have been demonstrated. Using a unique KrF-pumped Raman laser architecture, beam brightness exceeding 2×1019 Wcm-2 sterad-1 giving a focussed intensity >5 ×1017 Wcm-2 has been achieved. The development of transform-limited short-pulse oscillators is shown to be of importance in avoiding spectral broadening in air propagation of high-intensity beams. Beam smoothing of KrF beams in a multiplexed configuration has been demonstrated for the first time. The technique of echelon-free induced spatial incoherence has been shown to produce smooth intensity distributions in the far field, which remain essentially unchanged on amplification. The development of pulsed-power systems capable of exciting multikilojoule laser amplifiers for the next phase of development, the Supersprite system, is briefly discussed.



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