Fiber Optics and Photonics: European Heritage

High-Fidelity Analog Fiber Optics and Photonics for Military Applications

Introduction: Radio-frequency (RF) photonics provides increased or previously unavailable capabilities for many military platforms and applications. As compared to electronic approaches, photonics offers increased transmission distances in antenna-remoting applications, unrivaled bandwidth in signal-processing and other electromagnetic-warfare applications, and decreased size and weight in nume...

Rayleigh Fiber Optics Gyroscope - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

A novel kind of fiber-optic gyroscope based on Rayleigh backscattering in a fiber-ring resonator is presented in this letter. The information on the rotation rate is obtained from the composed response of the fiber ring to an optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) instrument. The developed model based on the coherence properties of the Rayleigh scattering yields to a polarization-insensitive ...

Optics & Photonics News - April 2011

Tunable graphene based optics, electronics and photonics

Graphene, which consists of a single atom-thick plane of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, exhibits unique both " bulk " and " surface " properties of materials due to its tunable electronic structure. In this talk, I would like to present the tunable platform of graphene-based materials including graphene and graphene oxide in optical, electronic and photonic applications by manipu...

Fiber Optics

Dramatic improvements in the development of low-loss materials for optical fibers are responsible for the commercial viability of fiber-optic communications. Corning Incorporated pioneered the development and manufacture of ultra-low-loss glass fibers. C 0 R N I N G 272 Fundamentals of Photonics