Electro-optic (EO) polymeric Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulators with photo-bleaching (PB) induced waveguides and dual driving electrodes operating at 1.55 mm wavelength have been demonstrated. The halfwave voltage of the integrated polymeric modulator was 4.5 V in a push–pull configuration with a 1.5 cm interaction length. The extinction ratio was greater than 20 dB, and the fibre-to-fibre insertion ...

Recent advanced techniques and associate technologies of transmission, wavelength multiplexing and channel routing for Tera-b/s photonic transport networks and their impacts on optical networking are discussed including (i) optical modulation formats and associate coding for optimising dispersion tolerance in linear and nonlinear operating regimes (ii) dispersion management and compensation tec...

A methodology for the measurement of high field strain and polarisation responses of fine scale piezoelectric fibres is presented. Using analytical models, the response of the fibres is extracted from measurements made on 1–3 composites. Analytical modelling shows that composites with a high fibre volume fraction are desirable for accurate prediction of the fibres response. Poor model response ...

Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren: Contention resolution in optical packet-switched cross-connects / by Ronelle Geldenhuys. – Eindhoven : Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 2007. Subject headings: photonic switching systems / optical information processing / semiconductor optical amplifiers / buffer storage. SUMMARY This thesis considers optical contention resolution in both al...

The linear polarisation of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400–750 nm). Time resolution as short as 11 μs, which corresponds to a phase interval of 1/3000 of the pulsar rotation, and high statistics allow the derivation of polarisation detail...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical images contain different types of land cover information. Moreover, whereas like-polarisation SAR images are predominately influenced by surface backscattering properties, the volume backscattering characteristics of surfaces are well represented by SAR cross-polarisation data. Hence, combined use of likeand cross-polarisation data could enhance the la...