purpose : to compare the ability of scanning laser polarimetry (gdx vcc), and optical coherence tomography (oct) to discriminate eyes with primary open angle glaucoma (poag) from normal eyes and to assess the relationship between their parameters methods : eighty-seven glaucomatous eyes of 87 patients and 25 normal eyes were enrolled. the mean age of patients and normal group were 54.96±18.34 a...

The phenomenon of destruction of silica fiber cladding by the fiber fuse effect has been observed for the first time to the authors' knowledge. Experiments on the optical discharge propagation along a fiber were conducted with fibers of decreased cladding thickness. The destruction of fiber cladding led to expansion of the optical discharge plasma and to a decrease of its density. This resulted...

Future generation optical networks are expected to provide ultra broadband optical communication to continuously growing fiber transmission requirements. In this context, Bismuth and Erbium (Bi/Er) codoped glass fibers symbolize an important aspect as it has offered a promising active laser medium for ultra-bandwidth communication. Many studies have been demonstrated that Bi/Er codoped glass op...

1 The School of Physics and The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland 2 Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada M5T 2S8 3 Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France 4 Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 80, 4056...

The distribution system of the rf reference line for the linear collider is required to supply stable xband(11.424GHz) rf reference signal over 25km length within 1(0.25ps) stability. In order to realize the distribution system, an optical fiber link using a phase stabilized optical fiber was tested. The phase stabilized optical fiber has been employed at LEP, KEKB, etc.. This paper describes t...