For a fiber optical surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor a short part of its cladding should be removed to coat a thin layer of a metal. Usually this is problematic when an optical fiber with small core diameter is used. In this paper, a new method using µliter droplet of the HF acid for short fiber optical taper fabrication is reported. Using this method in a multi-mode optical fiber w...

This study proposes an innovative design method for functional optical film microstructures used in displays and applies this design to LCD backlighting to replace multi-layer optical film functional integration with composite optical film. We design a novel optical film microstructure based on light uniformity and wide-angle lumination distribution and determine the optimal optical microstruct...

In this paper, we study the routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem in multi-segment optical networks. In multi-segment optical networks, each segment has different resource availability or hardware Characteristics. The differences between multi-segment optical networks and homogeneous optical networks are discussed. We then present a resource abstraction technique called Blocking Islan...

The Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) is a very attractive device for optical communication systems because of their multi-functional capability. The operation of the SOA is controlled by both the electrical and optical input signal. The SOAs have demonstrated their multi-functional capability by combining optical amplification with modulation, gating, photo-detection, dispersion compensati...

Highly-integrated multi-functional optoelectronic chip for next generation optical networks Department of Elec Email We introduce a novel, highly-integrate optoelectronic microchip that allows wavelength conversion, multi-waveleng regeneration and switching. This device r optical-electrical-optical conversion for alleviating the problems of high compon costs, large space and high power consu sc...

Recent progress in ultrahigh capacity optical communication technologies based on space-division multiplexing is described including one Pb/s transmission in a newly developed multi-core fiber with future perspectives for more capacity. OCIS codes: (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.2360) Fiber optics links and subsystems