Using point-by-point femtosecond laser inscription, a fibre Bragg grating (FBG) was written in a high NA germania-doped fibre. Thermal tests demonstrated that the FBG could withstand temperatures up to 800°C without significant effects on reflectivity. OCIS codes: (060.3735) Fibre Bragg gratings; (320.2250) Femtosecond phenomena

In the previous 20 years, wavelength conversion has received a considerable attention due to its strong influence on the blocking performance of wavelength-routed WDM networks. In a wavelength-routed WDM network, end users communicate with one another via all-optical WDM channels. In all-optical WDM channels optical fibre is used. Optical fibre is a single, hair-fine filament drawn from molten ...

Aims. We study the multifrequency emission and spectral properties of the quasar 3C 279 aimed at identifying the radiation processes taking place in the source. Methods. We observed 3C 279 in very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) γ-rays, with the MAGIC telescopes during 2011, for the first time in stereoscopic mode. We combined these measurements with observations at other energy bands: in high-e...

The ability to tune the Bragg wavelength of a fibre-Bragg grating (FBG) in an all-fibre laser can offer added functionality such as laser wavelength tunability, polarization selectivity, and Q-switching. Compared to current techniques which rely on mechanically straining the FBG to achieve Bragg-wavelength tunability, an all-optical technique for tuning an FBG offers potentially faster switchin...

Contemporary optical fibers can deal with almost all of the unfavorable effects which are known these days. They have sufficiently low specific slump, they can handle a slump caused by OHions, they can restrain the multimode effect and finally they can compensate a chromatic dispersion. But there is one problem, which the present science can’t solve and this problem is the Polarization Mode Dis...

The genesis of this special issue was the International Symposium on Green Radio over-fibre and all-Optical Wireless technologies for Access Networks: GROWAN 2011, 15– 17 June 2011, Brest, France. A selection of international key speakers from both industry and academia were invited to address radio-over-fibre and all-optical wireless technologies with a focus on minimising overall energy consu...

A combination of flexible optical time division multiplexing and dense wavelength division multiplexing techniques is deployed for realising a reconfigurable multi-Tbit/s data transport network connecting over 13000 telescope antennas. Both short-range and long-range transport in the 1.3 μm and in the 1.5 μm wavelength range, respectively, are explored. Introduction Very high capacity optical d...

BACKGROUND/AIM Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (RNFLT), as measured with scanning laser polarimetry using the fixed angle corneal polarisation compensator (SLP-F), has been found to be reduced after uncomplicated laser assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) compared to the pre-LASIK measurement. Since this virtual RNFLT thinning is attributed to the corneal changes induced by the LASIK, th...

The genesis of this special issue was the International Symposium on Green Radio over-fibre and all-Optical Wireless technologies for Access Networks: GROWAN 2011, 15– 17 June 2011, Brest, France. A selection of international key speakers from both industry and academia were invited to address radio-over-fibre and all-optical wireless technologies with a focus on minimising overall energy consu...