Introduction: Radio-over-fibre (RoF) techniques are attracting much attention from manufacturers and radio network operators for the deployment of flexible and cost-effective radio access systems. For the emerging broadband wireless standards, operating at carrier frequencies beyond 5 GHz, one of the main challenges of RoF techniques is the generation and remote delivery of microwave signals to...

Particles trapped in the evanescent field of an ultrathin optical fibre interact over very long distances via multiple scattering of the fibre-guided fields. In ultrathin fibres that support higher order modes, these interactions are stronger and exhibit qualitatively new behaviour due to the coupling of different fibre modes, which have different propagation wave-vectors, by the particles. Her...

We present new results on the optical link for the pixel detector of the ATLAS experiment. An optical package of novel design has been developed for the opto-link. The design is based on a simple connector-type concept and is made of radiation-hard material. The receiver (DORIC) and transmitter (VDC) chips have been designed. The prototype results using the 0.8 and 0.25 μm technologies are pres...

The Plastic Optical Fiber strives to actively promote the proliferation of Polymer Optical Fiber (POF) systems serving both data communication and non-data markets. Single mode silica optical fiber has already established as undisputable position in core telecommunication networks and has reached Tbits/s throughputs. When optical fiber approaches the user's residence, even enters his home, the ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between age and peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in healthy Chinese subjects. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Healthy volunteers (n=218) of Chinese ethnicity with spherical equivalent of -6 to +4 dioptres were recruited for study from October 2001 to March 2003. Ocular examination was ...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a transmission technique which has attracted attention in modern communication systems, e.g. DSL and wireless LAN. This principle has been applied recently to optical transmission. The performance of two different implementations of an optical OFDM system is investigated in the presence of differential group delay (DGD). In a second step both...

A laser-assisted tuning method of whispering gallery modes (WGMs) in a cylindrical microresonator based on magnetic-fluids-infiltrated microstructured optical fibres (MFIMOFs, where MF and MOF respectively refer to magnetic fluid and microstructured optical fibre) is proposed, experimentally demonstrated and theoretically analysed in detail. The MFIMOF is prepared by infiltrating the air-hole a...

H.: 'Overall theory 01 the erbiumdoped fibre amplifier', submitted for publication to IEEE J. Lightwave Technol., Special Issue on Optical Amplifiers 10 MARCEROU, J . F., FEVRIER, H., AUGE, I., and BOUSSELET, P . . 'A general theoretical approach describing the complete behavior of the erbium-doped fibre amplifier', to appear in SPIE Proc. vol. 1373, accepted paper 18 lo SPIE'90, San Jose (1990)