Could Photonics Kill Optics?

Optics & Photonics News - April 2011

Tunable graphene based optics, electronics and photonics

Graphene, which consists of a single atom-thick plane of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, exhibits unique both " bulk " and " surface " properties of materials due to its tunable electronic structure. In this talk, I would like to present the tunable platform of graphene-based materials including graphene and graphene oxide in optical, electronic and photonic applications by manipu...

Flexible integrated photonics: where materials, mechanics and optics meet [Invited]

While the vast majority of integrated photonic devices are traditionally fabricated on rigid substrates, photonic integration of both passive and active photonic devices on flexible polymer substrates has been demonstrated in recent years, and its applications in imaging, sensing and optical interconnects are being actively pursued. This paper presents an overview of the emerging field of mecha...

Rayleigh Fiber Optics Gyroscope - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

A novel kind of fiber-optic gyroscope based on Rayleigh backscattering in a fiber-ring resonator is presented in this letter. The information on the rotation rate is obtained from the composed response of the fiber ring to an optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) instrument. The developed model based on the coherence properties of the Rayleigh scattering yields to a polarization-insensitive ...

High-Fidelity Analog Fiber Optics and Photonics for Military Applications

Introduction: Radio-frequency (RF) photonics provides increased or previously unavailable capabilities for many military platforms and applications. As compared to electronic approaches, photonics offers increased transmission distances in antenna-remoting applications, unrivaled bandwidth in signal-processing and other electromagnetic-warfare applications, and decreased size and weight in nume...