A high-accuracy measurement method for the noncircularity (ellipticity) of silica glass fibers is demonstrated. This method makes use of the phase velocity difference between two eigen polarization modes of the lowest-order acoustic flexural wave in an optical fiber. The relationship between the acoustic phase velocity difference and the fiber ellipticity is formulated. Three types of optical f...

Nowadays, optical communications are the most requested and preferred telecommunication technology, due to its large bandwidth and low propagation attenuation, when compared with the electric transmission lines. Besides these advantages, the use of optical fibers often represents for the telecom operators a low implementation and operation cost. Moreover, the applications of optical fibers goes...

We present a method for ultra-low-loss coupling between two single-mode optical fibers with different mode-field diameters using multimode interference in a graded-index multimode optical fiber. We perform a detailed analysis of the interference effects and show that the graded-index fiber can also be used as a beam expander or condenser. The results are important for devices in which optical f...

A review of optical fiber hydrogen sensors based on palladium (Pd) is presented. Palladium hydrogen optical fiber sensing systems can be considered as a model for other metal hybrid systems. In addition, the Pd hydrogen systems are well characterized in bulk, cluster, or thin film form. We focus on the fiber principles. We then discuss their performances regarding their configurations. We will ...

Dispersion compensation in optical fiber communication system is analyzed. Performance is analyzed at10 Gbps in optical communication system with different transmission distance. To analyze the different modulation formats for optical modulation system and the impact of dispersion compensators on the performance of efficient optical communication system. Q factor and BER is analyzed with respec...

The optical fiber is well adapted to pass multiple wireless signals having different carrier frequencies by using radio-over-fiber (ROF) technique. However, multiple wireless signals which have the same carrier frequency cannot propagate over a single optical fiber, such as wireless multi-input multi-output (MIMO) signals feeding multiple antennas in the fiber wireless (FiWi) system. A novel op...

1. Introduction The goal of an optical fiber communication system is to transmit the maximum number of bits per second over the maximum possible distance with the fewest errors. A typical digital fiber optic link is depicted in Figure 1. Electrical data signals are converted to optical signals via a modulator. A " 1 " is transmitted as a pulse of light while a " 0 " has no light output. The num...

An optical fiber sensor surface bonded onto a host structure and subjected to a temperature change is analytically studied in this work. The analysis is developed in order to assess the thermal behavior of an optical fiber sensor designed for measuring the strain in the host structure. For a surface bonded optical fiber sensor, the measuring sensitivity is strongly dependent on the bonding char...