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An Introduction to Fiber Optics
Jeff Hecht
- pp 1-17
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This chapter is a starting point to look around and see where you’re going before you dig into details, and put fiber optics and communications into context and show how they go together.Abstract:
This chapter is a starting point to look around and see where you’re going before you dig into details. The goal is to put fiber optics and communications into context and show how they go together. I start with a personal commentary about the turbulent times of the past several years, then explain the plan for this book. A brief history of fiber optics follows, which introduces some important concepts. Then a brief history of communications explains the need for bandwidth and how fiber optics filled that need, perhaps too well. Finally, I explain some of the terminology of the field to help you in your looking about.read more
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Prospects of Photonic Crystal Fiber as Physical Sensor: An Overview.
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Handbook of Optical Sensors
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Soft, Transparent, Electronic Skin for Distributed and Multiple Pressure Sensing
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Nonlinear Propagation in Multimode and Multicore Fibers: Generalization of the Manakov Equations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated theoretically nonlinear transmission in space-division multiplexed (SDM) systems using multimode fibers exhibiting rapidly varying birefringence.
Journal ArticleDOI
Voxel-based fabrication through material property mapping
TL;DR: The level of control demonstrated in this study cannot be achieved using traditional CAD tools and volume-based AM workflows, implying that new CAD workflows must be developed in order to enable designers to harvest the capabilities of AM.
Journal ArticleDOI
Prospects of Photonic Crystal Fiber as Physical Sensor: An Overview.
TL;DR: Physical PCF sensors based on advanced and flexible phototonic crystal fiber structures, controlled light propagation for the measurement of amplitude, phase, polarization and wavelength of spectrum, and PCF-incorporated interferometry techniques are discussed.
BookDOI
Handbook of Optical Sensors
Jose Luis Santos,Faramarz Farahi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Santos and Faramarz Farahi defined the principles and techniques of optical measurement, including the following: Intensity Measurements: Principles and Techniques Carmen Vazquez Interferometric Measurement: principles and Techniques Mehrdad Abolbashari, Faramarza Farahi, and Jose Luis Santos Fluorescence Measurement, and surface plasmon Measurement; Principles and techniques Banshi D. Gupta and Rajan Jha Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing
Journal ArticleDOI
Soft, Transparent, Electronic Skin for Distributed and Multiple Pressure Sensing
TL;DR: A mechano-optical transduction principle that can allow the encoding of information related to an externally applied mechanical stimulus, e.g., contact, pressure and shape of contact is described.