Photonic sensors, signal processors and communication technologies have emerged as viable alternatives to electronics. Fiber optic sensors which can readily be integrated with smart materials and structures offer an immense potential in the realization of intelligent systems. This paper presents an overview of different types of fiber optic sensors and their application to smart structures.

Changes in the computer industry have increased the importance and sensitivity of micromainframe links. Over the past 10 years, for example, microcomputer hardware and micromainframe link software have improved significantly. Network technologies and vendor selections have increased, creating a multivendor, multiservice environment. The use of fiber optic cabling has increased the number of cir...

Over the last few years, the use of fiber optic cable in place of more conventional coaxial cable has become viable in many applications due to advances in analog fiber technology. This paper presents Fiber-to-BTS i.e. Fiber in Base station Applications, a new system for feeding radio frequency (RF) signals from either the base station controller (BSC) or base transceiver station (BTS) directly...

This paper describes the design and experimental verification of a multipoint sensing system with hetero-core spliced optical fiber sensors and its remote management using an internet-standard protocol. The study proposes two different types of design and conducts experiments to verify those systems' feasibility. In order to manage the sensing systems remotely, the management method uses a stan...

In fiber-optic systems with multiple channels or subcarriers, any three channels create new signal components through the nonlinear process of Four-Wave-Mixing (FWM). For the first time, to our best knowledge, we calculate the number of these products for each frequency. The results can be useful for nonlinear system analysis of multiplexed fiber-optic communication systems.