We report on the fabrication and properties of 850 nm wavelength AlGaAs–GaAs-based transceiver chips, in which vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and metal– semiconductor–metal (MSM) photodiodes are monolithically integrated. Various types of devices allow halfand full-duplex bidirectional optical interconnection at up to 2.5Gbit/s data rate using butt-coupled glass or polymer-cla...

Germania glass was prepared from high purity GeO2 powder. Refractive-index dispersion was used to calculate material dispersion and to provide a model for representing the dispersion of GeO2-SiO2 glasses. The wavelength of zero material dispersion is found to be in agreement with theoretical calculations. Modal propagation is modeled for a GeO2 core-silica clad fiber. Results support compositio...

We report a novel spontaneous soliton pattern formation in a figure-of-eight passively mode-locked erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser. It consists in a condensate phase in which there is almost periodic arrangement of alternate crystal and liquid soliton phases. Thanks to an adapted ansatz for the electric field, we perform a reconstruction allowing to clearly identify the soliton distributio...

Clad rebars of four different base materials (20MnSiV, 35# steel, 45# and 55# steel) were successfully produced by a vacuum hot rolling process. A metallographic optical microscope (OM), electron backscatter diffractometer (EBSD), probe micro-analyzer (EPMA), salt spray corrosion chamber used to investigate the clad contour, properties, composite interface microstructure all rebars. The results...