Photonics Research | December 2006
Although silica glass is the material of choice for nearly all of today’s fiber lasers, the rare-earth doping level that can be achieved in silica...
Wavelength-switchable fiber lasers are required for flexible dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) networks, as well as for many fiber optic...
There are a multitude of techniques with which to measure temperature, strain, pressure and other parameters with fiber optic sensors. In yet another...
Colloidal suspensions consist of nanometer- to micron-size particles dispersed in liquid or gas. Examples include smoke, milk and ink as well as...
A radially polarized laser beam, in which the electrical field is always along a line from the center, like the hands on a clock, is useful in...
One strength of photonic crystal fiber is its flexibility to be designed with desirable optical characteristics. A photonic crystal fiber’s...