Optical switching refers to the process of controlling the routing or transmission of optical signals within a network using various techniques to selectively switch or redirect optical paths. This is essential in optical communication systems,...

A method that produces low-loss optical fibers. A glass tube rotates while reactants pass through the tube and heat is...

Brillouin scattering is a phenomenon in physics where an incident electromagnetic wave (usually light) interacts with...

Fiber optic cable bearing many fibers independently sheathed and capable of carrying unrelated signals. They often surround...

An assembly of optical fibers that will not transmit coherent images or information because the relationship of the fibers...

A laser whose pulses are expanded, using gratings and optical fibers, before amplification and compressed to increase beam...

Fiber optic cable in which the arrangement of fibers within the bundle has been made random so that output light will be...

A container that prevents spliced fibers from becoming damaged or being misplaced.

A device for inducing mode coupling in an optical fiber. Also, a device composed of one or more optical fibers in which...

Modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) is a technique used in the fabrication of optical fibers. It is a specialized form...

Optical cements and adhesives are specialized materials used in the assembly and bonding of optical components in optical...

Optical fiber is a thin, flexible, transparent strand or filament made of glass or plastic used for transmitting light...

A bundle of optical fibers arranged randomly for the purpose of transmitting energy, not an image.

The lowest order mode of a waveguide. In fibers, the mode designated LP01 or HE11.

A method of optical fiber coupling in which the fibers are ground down to expose their cores and placed together to allow...

The direct cladding used for fused silica cores to create large numerical aperture fibers and used as overcoats to...

Loss intrinsic to the fiber caused by parameter (core dimension, profile parameter) mismatches when two nonidentical fibers...

Rare earth dopants refer to elements from the lanthanide series, also known as rare earth elements, that are intentionally...

Process that occurs when a polymerized soft plastic rod with higher refractive index is placed in a bath of a lower...

Capability requirement for optical switches for transmission lines to process arbitrarily polarized light because of the...

Optoelectronics is a branch of electronics that focuses on the study and application of devices and systems that use light...

The outer material that surrounds and protects the buffered and unbuffered fibers in an optical cable.

A laser that distributes its output power among two, three or four optical fibers simultaneously.

The term "embedded laser" typically refers to a laser device that is integrated or embedded into a larger system or...

A process that employs heat to remove polyimide plastic coatings from silica optical fibers and capillary tubing.

A nonlinear label-free imaging technique commonly used during surgical procedures for the visualization of collagen fibers...

A fiber optic bundle split along its length with the ends of the fibers extending separately to illuminate different points...

A process for the production of optical fibers. A glass bait is rotated in a traversing flame of a reaction burner....

The use of thin flexible glass or plastic fibers as wave guides — or "light pipes" — to channel light from one...

Laser-powered telephone device for analog communications that employs a vibrating plastic membrane as a transmitter to...

A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a type of optical filter that is inscribed or "written" into the core of an optical fiber. It...

1. A piece of glass with plane parallel surfaces used to admit light into an optical system and to exclude dirt and...

A cable assembly containing both optical fibers and copper electrical conductors in the same jacket.

A fiber optic spectrometer is a device used for measuring the spectral content of light. It utilizes optical fibers to...

High-modulus elastic fibers that exhibit the following differences from conventional elastic fibers: Increasing temperature...

The spectral transmission window in silica-based fibers between 830 and 850 nm.

An infrared transmitting material used in the production of fluoride glasses for optical fibers.

Glass consisting of almost pure silicon dioxide (SiO2). Also called vitreous silica. Frequently used in optical fibers and...

An electro-optic modulator (EOM) is a device used to modulate the amplitude, phase, or polarization of light waves using an...

A rigid or flexible, concentrated assembly of glass or plastic fibers used to transmit optical images or light. See aligned...

The recording of the information contained in a modulated electron beam onto photographic or silicon resin-coated materials....

An absorbing coating medium between fibers, used in some fused fiber optic plates to absorb unwanted light. Such coatings...

A ratio expressing the difference in power between the output fibers of a coupler or splitter.

Optical manufacturing tools and machinery encompass a wide range of equipment, instruments, and systems used in the...

Transparent matter that usually is drawn into a cylindrical, pyramidical or conical shape through which light is channeled...

A fiber optic sensor is a device that uses optical fibers to detect and measure physical, chemical, biological, or...

A fiber optic transceiver, often simply referred to as an "optical transceiver," is a device used in fiber optic...

A device used in measuring the attenuation of multimode optical fibers. A short reference length of fiber when combined with...

Histochemical staining is a laboratory technique used in biology and medicine to visualize specific chemical components...

An assembly of fibers in which the coordinates of each fiber are the same at the two ends of the bundle. Also called...

An optical assembly refers to a collection of optical components that are carefully arranged and aligned to perform a...

The optical power loss caused by a space between axially aligned fibers.

A high-frequency approach to the propagation of light in graded-index fibers in which the modal field is represented in...

A fiber optic preform is a cylindrical glass rod or tube used as the starting material for manufacturing optical fibers. It...

Optical fiber optic switches are devices used in optical fiber communication systems to selectively route optical signals...

A laser fitted with up to eight optical fibers that transmit the energy to different workstations in turn.

A fiber optic end plate constructed by drawing a bundle of parallel fibers embedded in glass and cutting it into thin...

A plate consisting of fused optical fibers with both surfaces ground and polished, and having the entrance surface curved to...

A type of optical fiber loss resulting from the misalignment of fibers in a splice or connector.

A sequential scanning device, utilizing a revolving lens, in which the cathode-ray tube image is transformed into a circle...

Holmium lasers are a type of medical laser that utilizes holmium-doped crystals as the gain medium. The term holmium laser...

A method of terminating optical fibers by forming a lens directly on the end of the fiber, eliminating the need for precise...

Transparent glassy and or crystalline structured materials engineered from inorganic, non-metallic materials via various...

A dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) refers to a type of optical fiber designed to minimize the effects of chromatic dispersion,...

Term synonymous with refractive index liquid, but related more to tank or chamber immersion of crystals, fibers, lenses,...

An edge-emitting light-emitting diode is a type of LED structure where light emission occurs primarily along the edge of the...

A fiber optic connector or splice that mates two multifiber cables, optically aligning all of the individual fibers...

The surface of an optical fiber that is used as a reference when joining optical fibers. Although the outermost cladding is...

A vapor-phase oxidation process for fabricating graded-index optical fibers. It differs from outside vapor phase deposition...

A type of fatigue found in optical fibers, caused by water or another corroding agent.

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear optical process that occurs when two photons with the same frequency combine...

A V-shaped channel pressed or etched into a substrate, in which, for example, optical fibers may be placed to create an...

The material that produces stimulated emission from within a laser oscillator. Laser gain media may vary from...

A wide-field multiobject spectroscopy system used in astronomy, in which a bundle of low-loss optical fibers positioned on...

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter...

The face of a cathode-ray tube (CRT) that has a fiber optic sheet attached to its surface. The sheet's fibers are at right...

An optical testing instrument is a device or system used to evaluate and measure the performance, quality, and...

A coherent fiber optic bundle made from fibers whose diameter changes gradually along its length. Used to magnify or reduce...

A fiber optic cable assembly refers to a complete unit consisting of optical fibers, connectors, protective jackets, and...

An optical instrument consisting of an objective lens, a coherent (usually flexible) fiber bundle and an eyepiece to examine...

A microbubble resonator is a device used in photonics and optical physics for the precise manipulation of light waves. It...

1. A group of optical fibers that are fused and then treated to produce a vacuum-tight optical fiber cone or plate. 2. An...

An optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) is a specialized instrument used in optical fiber communications to characterize...

A coherent fiber bundle (CFB), also known as a coherent fiber optic bundle, is an assembly of multiple optical fibers...

A fiber-coupled photoconductive antenna (FCPA) is a type of optoelectronic device that combines a photoconductive antenna...

An array of optically distinct fibers that are fused into one strand. They are used to keep the resolution efficiency of the...

A cable that incorporates multiple fibers, jacketed side by side in a ribbonlike form.

Optical fibers fused together to form a solid, vacuum-tight assembly in the form of a slab or rod. Discs or rectangular...

A means of testing the strength of optical fibers to ensure reliability, by applying stress to the fiber so that any flaws...

A plate made up of thousands of glass fibers arranged parallel to one another, i.e., in a coherent bundle, and fused...

Photonic crystals are artificial structures or materials designed to manipulate and control the flow of light in a manner...

Any arrangement of a bundle of optical fibers that alters the shape of the image. For example, by systematic regulation of...

When splitting the output of a single optical fiber into two or more fibers, the difference in the maximum loss between any...

A microscope in which laser light is delivered through single-mode fibers that replace the pinhole usually used in confocal...

Nonlinear optical materials are substances that exhibit optical properties that are not linearly proportional to the...

Double-clad fiber (DCF) is a specialized optical fiber that features two concentric cladding layers surrounding a core. The...

A MEMS fiber optic switch is a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device designed to selectively route optical signals...

An arrangement of optical fibers in a bundle whereby the geometric configuration of the input end differs from that of the...

Low-insertion-loss fiber coupler fabricated from a sheet of light-sensitive material laminated onto a fused quartz substrate...

Nondestructive measurement of the delta and alpha of clad optical fibers that involves interferometry with the fiber...

Chalcogenide refers to a class of compounds containing elements from group 16 of the periodic table, which includes sulfur...

A flexible single- or multifiber cable having a bundle of glass fibers arranged to transmit an image.

A fiber optic imaging bundle is a specialized optical device composed of multiple optical fibers bundled together. Each...

The term gradient-index profile refers to a specific type of refractive index distribution within an optical material. In...

Ultraviolet (UV) fiber optics refers to optical fibers that are designed and optimized for the transmission of ultraviolet...

In polarization-preserving optical fibers, the element used to induce birefringence. The SAP is highly doped to provide a...

The use of a plasma to induce the formation of oxides in the production of graded-index optical fibers.

Triggering a laser at a predetermined time by pumping it to a level just below its threshold and then using an auxiliary...

A technique developed by British Telecom in which the viscous drag of air is used to install optical fibers in narrow...

A modulator is a device or component that modifies a carrier signal in order to encode information for transmission over a...

Transmission loss in optical fibers caused by packaging processes; it is considered a power-coupling effect from the guided...

A shaft, spindle or any object generally passed through a workpiece to hold, support or shape a particular piece during its...

A package for an optical fiber or fibers that may include cladding, buffering, strength members and an outer jacket.

The low-refractive-index material that surrounds the core of an optical fiber to contain core light while protecting against...

In the context of optical materials, the term "impurity level" refers to the presence of foreign atoms or molecules within...

A system of mirrors that can be used to direct light from a single laser source into any one of a number of separate optical...

Germanium crystal refers to a crystalline form of the element germanium (Ge), which is a metalloid and semiconductor...

A bundle of filaments of optical glass or other transparent materials that transmit only light, not optical images. The...

A circular lamp or bundles of optical fibers placed around the perimeter of an objective lens to illuminate the object field...

In fiber optic cable, containment of the fiber or fibers within an outer protective tube in which they can move to some...