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Guidelines for the characterization and use of fibre optic sensors: basic definitions and a proposed standard for FBG-based strain sensors

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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

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk, Jijun He, Xinru Ji, Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic integrated circuits but their use remains impractical as a result of insuf ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, 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

Silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems add-drop ring resonator in a foundry process

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Photonic add-drop filters are crucial components for the implementation of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) in fiber-optic communication systems. The recent progress in photonic integration has shown the potential to integrate photonic add-drop filte ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2022

Distributed measurement of mode group effective refractive index difference in a few mode optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

The possibility to perform distributed measurements of the effective refractive index difference between distinct modes in few mode optical fibers is demonstrated using phase sensitive optical time domain reflectometry. Effective refractive index differenc ...

2022

Observation of SQUID-Like Behavior in Fiber Laser with Intra-Cavity Epsilon-Near-Zero Effect

Camille Sophie Brès, Qian Li, Xuanyi Liu, Jiaye Wu, Marco Clementi

Establishing relations between fundamental effects in far-flung areas of physics is a subject of great interest in the current research. Realization of a novel photonic system akin to the radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference device (RF-SQUI ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Enhanced Signal-Associated Noise in a φ-OTDR System

Luc Thévenaz, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal, Suneetha Sebastian

Owing to their high sensitivity with respect to external measurands, Rayleigh-based distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) find their way into applications in many industrial and academic sectors. To further transcend the limit of these sensors in terms ...

2022

Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Sydney Rebecca Mason

Electro-optic modulators are essential for sensing, metrology and telecommunications. Most target fiber applications. Instead, metasurface-based architectures that modulate free-space light at gigahertz (GHz) speeds can boost flat optics technology by micr ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Dual chirped microcomb based parallel ranging at megapixel-line rates

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

Photonic integrated systems can be harnessed for fast and efficient optical telecommunication and metrology technologies. Here the authors develop a dual-soliton microcomb technique for massively parallel coherent laser ranging that requires only a single ...

Nature Portfolio2022

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

Linear Electro-optic Effect in Silicon Nitride Waveguides Enabled by Electric-Field Poling

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich

Stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4) is one of the most mature integrated photonic platforms for linear and nonlinear optical applications on-chip. However, because it is a centrosymmetric material, second-order nonlinear processes are inherently not ava ...

2022