Optical techniques developed for sensing purposes proved to be essential in many application fields, ranging from aerospace, industry, process control, to security, and also medicine. The capabilities of these sensors are generally enhanced when a bulk-optical configuration is replaced by optical fibre technology. In the past few years, research programmes and also the market for fibre sensors ...

Dispersion, as the characteristic variation of refractive index with wavelength, is more pronounced, where the wavelength is approaching to the absorption band. In ultra-optical glasses, the nonlinear refractive index, concerning to the light intensity dependent phenomenon, becomes considerable. Here, two ultra-optical property glass systems; TiO2-Bi2O3-PbO (TBP...

The focal purpose of this thesis is to study chirality specifically in telecommunications area, through the pure chiral fibres (optical fibres constituted by chiral material) and chiral fibre grating (twisted optical fibre), analysing also its behaviour and applications. Nevertheless we shall also address this theme from an economical perspective. The study begins by giving a brief introduction...

The optical rotatory dispersion (ORD) and circular dichroism of the conformationally flexible carvone molecule has been investigated in 17 solvents and compared with results from calculations for the "free" (gas phase) molecule. The G3 method was used to determine the relative energies of the six conformers. The optical rotation of (R)-(-)-carvone at 589 nm was calculated using coupled cluster ...

The role of optical buffering in the development of all-optical cross-connects is discussed, followed by an analysis of fibre delay line implementations in optical buffers. It is shown that the traffic model plays an important part in the analyses of the systems, together with the traffic load, the use of internal buffer wavelengths, and the cross-connect architecture. Travelling buffers have s...

A potential problem with using wide-field multi-object spectrographs for quasar redshift surveys is the introduction of positiondependent selection effects into the survey catalogue because of variations in the observed signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) across the survey area. A function relating signal losses in instruments using optical fibre input to the fibre-to-image position error, the fibre di...

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The phenomenon of molecular optical activity manifests itself as the rotation of the plane of linear polarization when light passes through chiral media. Measurements of optical activity and its wavelength dependence, that is, optical rotatory dispersion, can reveal information about intricate properties of molecules, such as the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms comprising a molecule. Giv...

Quality of embedment of optical fibre sensors in carbon fibre-reinforced polymers plays an important role in the resultant properties of the composite, as well as for the correct monitoring of the structure. Therefore, availability of a tool able to check the optical fibre sensor-composite interaction becomes essential. High-resolution 3D X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography, or Micro-CT, is a relat...

We review the current state of lightwave component and device technology in South Korea, particularly focusing on the recent progress in research, development and implementation in conjunction with a government programme. The plan for the communications infrastructure is being conducted in three stages. The first stage consists of installation of optical fibre cables interconnecting all the cit...