scholarly journals Introduction to Photonics: Principles and the Most Recent Applications of Microstructures

Micromachines ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iraj Amiri ◽  
Saaidal Azzuhri ◽  
Muhammad Jalil ◽  
Haryana Hairi ◽  
Jalil Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Signal Transmission ◽  
Fusion Energy ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Evanescent Field ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Root Word ◽  
Optofluidic Waveguides

Light has found applications in data transmission, such as optical fibers and waveguides and in optoelectronics. It consists of a series of electromagnetic waves, with particle behavior. Photonics involves the proper use of light as a tool for the benefit of humans. It is derived from the root word “photon”, which connotes the tiniest entity of light analogous to an electron in electricity. Photonics have a broad range of scientific and technological applications that are practically limitless and include medical diagnostics, organic synthesis, communications, as well as fusion energy. This will enhance the quality of life in many areas such as communications and information technology, advanced manufacturing, defense, health, medicine, and energy. The signal transmission methods used in wireless photonic systems are digital baseband and RoF (Radio-over-Fiber) optical communication. Microwave photonics is considered to be one of the emerging research fields. The mid infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy offers a principal means for biological structure analysis as well as nonintrusive measurements. There is a lower loss in the propagations involving waveguides. Waveguides have simple structures and are cost-efficient in comparison with optical fibers. These are important components due to their compactness, low profile, and many advantages over conventional metallic waveguides. Among the waveguides, optofluidic waveguides have been found to provide a very powerful foundation for building optofluidic sensors. These can be used to fabricate the biosensors based on fluorescence. In an optical fiber, the evanescent field excitation is employed to sense the environmental refractive index changes. Optical fibers as waveguides can be used as sensors to measure strain, temperature, pressure, displacements, vibrations, and other quantities by modifying a fiber. For some application areas, however, fiber-optic sensors are increasingly recognized as a technology with very interesting possibilities. In this review, we present the most common and recent applications of the optical fiber-based sensors. These kinds of sensors can be fabricated by a modification of the waveguide structures to enhance the evanescent field; therefore, direct interactions of the measurand with electromagnetic waves can be performed. In this research, the most recent applications of photonics components are studied and discussed.

scholarly journals Study of Microbending Loss Single Mode Optic Fiber in Sand Powder Against Pressure

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Bambang Widiyatmoko ◽  
Mefina Y. Rofianingrum
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Voltage Drop ◽  
Signal Transmission ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Optical Signal ◽  
Single Mode Fiber ◽  
Mechanical Pressure ◽  
Optical Attenuation ◽  
Load Sensor

Research has been carried out to further investigate specifically the effect of sand powder, both the size of the sand grains and the thickness of the sand powder on the photodetector output as an advanced study of the single-mode optical fiber microbending loss theory in sand grains to pressure. This was done to investigate the response of optical fibers due to microbending loss to the load and determine the size of the sand particles that are most effectively used as a compiler of load sensors. The principle works to test the response of load sensors based on single-mode fiber optic microbending loss in the form of photodetector output when given a large variety of pressure. The method used in this research is to observe the reduction in the intensity of the light transmitted through optical fibers in the form of a voltage drop that is read by MMD that is connected to the photodetector. The reduced light intensity shows that the load sensor experiences optical attenuation of the laser as a light source with a wavelength of 1550 nm and a power of 1.47 mW. Microbending loss is caused by mechanical pressure that can change the direction of optical signal transmission and the radius of the curve is equal to or less than the diameter of a bare optical fiber. Observations were made using 12 load sensors with variations in the size of the sand grains in each diameter of the hose. The results of this study obtained the size of the most effective grains of sand providing microscopic curvature in the optical fiber that is 0.05 mm in terms of the correlation between the response of sensors with various diameters to changes in pressure.

Real-time optical fiber sensors based on light diffusing microlens arrays

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 2060-2070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elsherif ◽  
Rosalia Moreddu ◽  
Muhammad Umair Hassan ◽  
Ali K. Yetisen ◽  
Haider Butt
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Immune Reaction ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Optical Fiber Sensors ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Microlens Arrays ◽  
Fiber Sensors

The applications of optical fibers are impeded in implantable medical diagnostics due to incompatibility with biological tissues, and immune reaction in vivo.

scholarly journals Swelling-Based Distributed Chemical Sensing with Standard Acrylate Coated Optical Fibers

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 718
Author(s):  
Sina Sedighi ◽  
Marcelo A. Soto ◽  
Alin Jderu ◽  
Dorel Dorobantu ◽  
Marius Enachescu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Chemical Sensing ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Refractive Index Change ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry ◽  
Frequency Domain Reflectometry ◽  
Agriculture Water

Distributed chemical sensing is demonstrated using standard acrylate coated optical fibers. Swelling of the polymer coating induces strain in the fiber’s silica core provoking a local refractive index change which is detectable all along an optical fiber by advanced distributed sensing techniques. Thermal effects can be discriminated from strain using uncoated fiber segments, leading to more accurate strain readings. The concept has been validated by measuring strain responses of various aqueous and organic solvents and different chain length alkanes and blends thereof. Although demonstrated on a short range of two meters using optical frequency-domain reflectometry, the technique can be applied to many kilometer-long fiber installations. Low-cost and insensitive to corrosion and electromagnetic radiation, along with the possibility to interrogate thousands of independent measurement points along a single optical fiber, this novel technique is likely to find applications in environmental monitoring, food analysis, agriculture, water quality monitoring, or medical diagnostics.

scholarly journals Light Localization and Principal Mode Propagation in Optical Fibers

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Nolan ◽  
Dan T. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Wavelength Division Multiplexing ◽  
Signal Transmission ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Optical Fiber Communications ◽  
Principal Mode ◽  
Wavelength Division ◽  
Light Localization ◽  
Growth Space

The capacity of optical fiber communications has grown exponentially since its implementation decades ago. Optical fiber amplifiers, wavelength division multiplexing, and coherent communications have all enabled discontinuous growth. Space division multiplexing is proposed as the next discontinuity. Here tens of modes rather than a single mode are utilized in the transmission. Random scattering due to index fluctuations within the optical fiber cause coupling among the modal channels thereby degrading signal transmission. Principal mode transmission overcomes this limitation. Here a set of modes arrive localized at the fiber output unscattered. We review this methodology as it relates to optical communication capacity, but also as it relates to light localization. We also review the characterization of these modes both theoretically and experimentally.

Heating and Burning of Optical Fibers and Cables by Light Scattered from Bubble Train Formed by Optical Fiber Fuse

2012 ◽  
Vol E95.B (8) ◽  
pp. 2638-2641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto YAMADA ◽  
Akisumi TOMOE ◽  
Takahiro KINOSHITA ◽  
Osanori KOYAMA ◽  
Yutaka KATUYAMA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers

scholarly journals Nano- and Micropatterning on Optical Fibers by Bottom-Up Approach: The Importance of Being Ordered

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3254
Author(s):  
Marco Pisco ◽  
Francesco Galeotti
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Ordered Structures ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Photonic Structures ◽  
Fiber Technology ◽  
Optical Fiber Probes ◽  
Fiber Probes ◽  
Self Assembled

The realization of advanced optical fiber probes demands the integration of materials and structures on optical fibers with micro- and nanoscale definition. Although researchers often choose complex nanofabrication tools to implement their designs, the migration from proof-of-principle devices to mass production lab-on-fiber devices requires the development of sustainable and reliable technology for cost-effective production. To make it possible, continuous efforts are devoted to applying bottom-up nanofabrication based on self-assembly to decorate the optical fiber with highly ordered photonic structures. The main challenges still pertain to “order” attainment and the limited number of implementable geometries. In this review, we try to shed light on the importance of self-assembled ordered patterns for lab-on-fiber technology. After a brief presentation of the light manipulation possibilities concerned with ordered structures, and of the new prospects offered by aperiodically ordered structures, we briefly recall how the bottom-up approach can be applied to create ordered patterns on the optical fiber. Then, we present un-attempted methodologies, which can enlarge the set of achievable structures, and can potentially improve the yielding rate in finely ordered self-assembled optical fiber probes by eliminating undesired defects and increasing the order by post-processing treatments. Finally, we discuss the available tools to quantify the degree of order in the obtained photonic structures, by suggesting the use of key performance figures of merit in order to systematically evaluate to what extent the pattern is really “ordered”. We hope such a collection of articles and discussion herein could inspire new directions and hint at best practices to fully exploit the benefits inherent to self-organization phenomena leading to ordered systems.

Preparation of Bi‐Doped ZnO Thin Film over Optical Fiber and Their Application as Detection of Ethylenediamine in an Aqueous Medium Based on the Evanescent Field Technique

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 (24) ◽  
pp. 2000537
Author(s):  
Shailendra Kr. Singh ◽  
Uttam Kr. Samanta ◽  
Anirban Dhar ◽  
Mrinmay Pal ◽  
Mukul Chandra Paul
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Aqueous Medium ◽  
Evanescent Field ◽  
Zno Thin Film ◽  
Field Technique ◽  
Doped Zno

Fabrication of Lensed Plastic Optical Fiber Array Using Electrostatic Force

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yih-Tun Tseng ◽  
Jhong-Bin Huang ◽  
Che-Hsin Lin ◽  
Chin-Lung Chen ◽  
Wood-Hi Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Optical Fibers ◽  
Electrostatic Force ◽  
Coupling Efficiency ◽  
Numerical Aperture ◽  
Uv Curing ◽  
Power Budget ◽  
Fiber Array ◽  
Plastic Optical Fibers ◽  
Efficient Coupling

The GI (graded-index) POFs (Plastic optical fibers), which has been proven to reach distances as long as 1 km at 1.25 Gb/s has a relatively low numerical aperture . Therefore, the efficient coupling of GI POFs to the light source has become critical to the power budget in the system. Efficient coupling for a POFs system normally involves either a separate lens or the direct formation of the lens at the end of the fiber. Forming the lens-like structure directly on the fiber end is preferred for simplicity of fabrication and packaging, such as polishing and fusion, combine different fibers with the cascaded fiber method and hydroflouride (HF) chemical etching. These approaches are well established, but applicable only to glass. Optical assembly architecture for multichannel fibers and optical devices is critical to optical fiber interconnections. Multichannel fiber-pigtail laser diode (LD) modules have potential for supporting higher data throughput and longer transmission distances. However, to be of practical use, these modules must be more precise. This work proposes and manufactures lensed plastic optical fibers (LPOF) array. This novel manipulation can be utilized to fabricate an aspherical lens on a fiber array after the UV curing of the photo-sensitive polymer; the coupling efficiency (CE) is increased and exceeds 47% between the LD array and the fiber array.

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