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2D Molybdenum Disulfide Embedded Photonic Crystal Fiber for all‐Fiber Phase Retarder

The integration of 2D materials with optical fibers enables multifunctional fiber devices, such as polarizers, modulators, and sensors. Recent advances in direct vapor deposition growth further enhance light‐2D material interactions to centimeter‐scale len ...

Wiley2025

Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

Davide Uglietti, Kamil Sedlák

For the EU DEMO conductor testing, a temperature sensor based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fiber is studied at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center. The SULTAN test facility has been upgraded to use fiber optic sensor for temperature monitoring and quench ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Distributed Temperature Alarm System Based on Incoherent Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry and Side Air-Hole Optical Fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Yuting Yang

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a distributed temperature alarm system based on carbon dioxide (CO2)-filled 18 m side air-holes fiber (SAHF), interrogated through a conventional (incoherent) optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR). Custom ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Dendrimer-Based Coatings on a Photonic Crystal Surface for Ultra-Sensitive Small Molecule Detection

Serguei Sekatski

We propose and demonstrate dendrimer-based coatings for a sensitive biochip surface that enhance the high-performance sorption of small molecules (i.e., biomolecules with low molecular weights) and the sensitivity of a label-free, real-time photonic crysta ...

MDPI2023

A Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Erbium-doped Waveguide Amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Jijun He, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji

We demonstrate an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier by erbium ion implantation in Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits, achieving 145 mW on-chip output power and more than 30 dB small-signal gain, which is on par with commercial fiber amplifiers and beyond st ...

IEEE2022

Functionalization of polymer optical fibers for medical application

Jialuo Luo

The increasing challenges caused by the growing and aging population and the fast pace of life are calling for a change of our current medical care system towards being rapid, easy, and on-demand self-care. Empowerment with the self-caring components such ...

EPFL2022

Ultra-long range distributed fibre sensing using virtually transparent propagation

Luc Thévenaz

We address the concept of virtual transparency in optical fibres and its application to dynamic range extension in distributed sensors. A sensor featuring 100 km measurement range with 2 meter resolution is experimentally demonstrated. ...

Optical Society of America2011

Investigating Novel Optical Fibres for More Advanced Distributed Optical Fibre Sensing

Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal

The ever-growing need for distributed optical fibre sensors (DOFS) in numerous fields and applications demands continuous research towards the advancement of the existing sensing systems. The convenience in the field of DOFS lies in the several degrees of ...

EPFL2022

Compact Integrated Silicon Photonic Mems Power Coupler For Programmable Photonics

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Programmable photonics promise a plethora of optical functions while at the same time reducing the time and costs of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) development. One primary bottleneck for development of these systems is the difficulty in increasing comp ...

IEEE2022

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Jijun He, Nikolai Kuznetsov

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology typically using rare-earth-doped fibres or gain media based on III-V semiconductors. A different physical process to amplify optical signals is to use the Kerr no ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Recent progress in Brillouin distributed fibre sensing

Luc Thévenaz

This paper will review some recent progresses related to distributed optical fibre sensing using Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis (BOTDA) towards increased performance in range, resolution and acquisition time. Since optical fibre sensing will certai ...

Nanjing University2007

Local Emergence of Peregrine Solitons: Experiments and Theory

Alexey Tikan

It has been shown analytically that Peregrine solitons emerge locally from a universal mechanism in the so-called semiclassical limit of the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Experimentally, this limit corresponds to the strongly non ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Advanced trends in nonlinear optics applied to distributed optical-fibre sensors

Dario Alasia

The distributed optical-fibre sensors based on the properties of Brillouin scattering is the central object of this thesis. In the past decade, optical fibres have gained a large interest as sensors: attractive solutions based on the non-linear stimulated ...

EPFL2006

Difference-frequency generation in silicon nitride waveguides based on all-optical poling

Camille Sophie Brès, Edgars Nitiss, Ozan Yakar, Boris Zabelich, Ezgi Sahin

IEEE2021

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

Three-dimensional fabrication of sub-micron optical waveguides in PDMS and other polymer materials

Giulia Panusa

Optical waveguides are one of the most important photonic components. They are indispensable tools in many of todayâ s technologies because of their capacity of guiding light. In particular, compact, low loss, flexible polymer optical waveguides are cruci ...

EPFL2021

Electrically driven source of time-energy entangled photons based on a self-pumped silicon microring resonator

Micol Previde Massara, Matteo Galli

Time-energy entangled photon pairs are fundamental resources for quantum communication protocols since they are robust against environmental fluctuations in optical fiber networks. Pair sources based on spontaneous four-wave mixing in silicon microring res ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Zhisheng Yang, Simon Adrien Zaslawski, Sheng Wang

Distributed optical fibre sensors deliver a map of a physical quantity along an optical fibre, providing a unique solution for health monitoring of targeted structures. Considerable developments over recent years have pushed conventional distributed sensor ...

Nature Research2020

Reliability and lifetime of optical fibres and fibre bragg gratings for metrology and telecommunications

This thesis presents new developments on the different intrinsic failure mechanisms of silica optical fibres and fibre Bragg gratings with regard to applications in the fields of telecommunications and metrology. These failure mechanisms are mainly due to ...

EPFL2001