Extended germano-gallate fiber drawing domain: from germanates to gallates optical fibers

Optical Fiber Drawing and Dopant Transport

Abstract. Optical fibers are made of glass with different refractive indices in the (inner) core and the (outer) cladding regions. The difference in refractive index arises due to a rapid transition in the concentration of a dopant across the boundary between these two regions. Fibers are normally drawn from a heated glass preform, and the different dopant concentrations in the two regions will...

Optical Fibers and Optical Fiber Sensors Used in Radiation Monitoring

By their very nature, optical fibers and, by extension, intrinsic and extrinsic optical fiberbased sensors are promising devices to be used in very different and complex environments considering their characteristics such as: capabilities to work under strong electromagnetic fields; possibility to carry multiplexed signals (time, wavelength multiplexing); small size and low mass; ability to han...

Polyethylene Fiber Drawing Optimization

Polymer fiber drawing creates fibers with enhanced thermal conductivity and strength compared to bulk polymer because drawing aligns the molecular chains. I optimize the polymer fiber drawing method in order to achieve polymer fibers that are drawn to lengths exceeding 1cm and develop a method to cut and store them for future experimental purposes. With lengths exceeding 1cm, starting with leng...

Advanced Optical Fibers for High Power Fiber Lasers

Optical fiber ring resonator characterization by optical time-domain reflectometry.

A novel method for characterization of optical fiber resonators by an optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) technique is reported. This easy-to-use technique yields accurate results for cavity lengths ranging from a few meters to several kilometers. A simple relationship is established between the round-trip cavity loss and the position where the OTDR signal is maximum. The value obtained fo...