We report the fabrication of a large mode area tellurite holey fiber from an extruded preform, with a mode area of 3000microm(2). Robust single-mode guidance at 1.55microm was confirmed by both optical measurement and numerical simulation. The propagation loss was measured as 2.9dB/m at 1.55microm. A broad and flat supercontinuum from 0.9 to 2.5microm with 6mW output was obtained with a 9cm len...

We present the fabrication and characterization of monolithically integrated transceiver chips with vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and PIN photodetectors for bidirectional optical data communication at 850 nm wavelength over a single butt-coupled standard multimode fiber. With such a low-cost transmission configuration, data rates of 9Gbit/s in back-to-back mode and 7Gbit/s ov...

recently, microstructured optical fibers have attracted significant research effort as in addition to offering a highly designable optical performance they also allow integration of the non-optical functionalities such as microfluidics, electrical conductivity, biocompatibility, mechanical actuation, etc. into the same fiber structure. In my talk I will overview the latest advances of our group...

Volatile organic compound (VOC) detection is a topic of growing interest with applications in diverse fields, ranging from environmental uses to the food or chemical industries. Optical fiber VOC sensors offering new and interesting properties which overcame some of the inconveniences found on traditional gas sensors appeared over two decades ago. Thanks to its minimum invasive nature and the a...

Abstract: Based on a recent formulation of the V –parameter of a photonic crystal fiber we provide numerically based empirical expressions for this quantity only dependent on the two structural parameters — the air hole diameter and the hole-to-hole center spacing. Based on the unique relation between the V –parameter and the equivalent mode field radius we identify how the parameter space for ...

The design and fabrication procedures for implementing a high-density (16-microm center spacing) single-mode fiber (SMF) array are described. The specific application for this array is a parallel optical coherence tomography system for endoscopic imaging. We obtained fiber elements by etching standard single-mode SMF-28 fibers to a diameter of 14-15 microm. We equalized 1-m lengths of fiber to ...

A novel optical fiber humidity sensor based on lossy mode resonances (LMR) has been developed. LMRs are supported here by a thin Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) coating fabricated onto an optical fiber core via a sol-gel dip coating. ITO coated optical fiber devices present a resonant maximum absorption peak in the infra-red region which is shifted to higher wavelengths when the refractive index of the ...

Optical transfection is a promising technique for the delivery of foreign genetic material into cells by transiently changing the permeability of the cell membrane. Of the different optical light sources that have been used, femtosecond laser based transfection has been one of the most effective methods for optical transfection which is generally implemented using a free space bulk optical setu...

This paper describes a new approach to amplify optical images by using optically pumped doped cores in a multi-core optical fiber structure. This approach combines the high gain and high efficiency properties of cladding pumped optical amplifiers with the imaging properties of coherent fiber bundles. The individual cores correspond to the pixels in the image amplifier. We have demonstrated 3x3 ...

Due to the growing demand for higher bandwidth, employing optical devices instead of electronic devices in data transmission systems has attracted much attention in recent years. Optical switches, modulators and wavelength converters are a few examples of the required optical devices. CMOS compatible fabrication of these devices, leads to much more growing of this technology. Optical pulse comp...