{"title":"All-fiber all-normal-dispersion passively mode-locked Yb-doped ring laser based on graphene oxide","authors":"Xiao-hui Li, Meng Liu, Zhiyu Yan, Qijie Wang, Yonggang Wang, Yishan Wang, Xia Yu","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6458031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6458031","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate an all-fiber all-normal-dispersion Yb-doped fiber laser that is passively mode locked by a graphene oxide (GO)-polymer. Because of good solution processing characteristic of the GO to polymer, a GO-polymer saturable absorber (SA) was successfully fabricated. Self-started mode-locking laser performance was investigated comprehensively at different cavity lengths, from 5, 24, to 94 m. The results showed that the pulse duration varies from hundreds of picoseconds to nanoseconds. In addition, the average output power of the mode-locked fiber laser can reach up to 500 mW. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that pulses with large chirps can be more easily amplified to reach high output power.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"196 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132193349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitized RF-over-Fiber for efficient fiber-wireless signal transport","authors":"C. Lim, Yizhuo Yang, A. Nirmalathas","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6457925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6457925","url":null,"abstract":"To overcome the inherent issues related to analog transport of wireless signals over optical fiber in a fiber-wireless link, we have developed a digitized RF-over-Fiber transport scheme. This paper reviews some of the work we have done in this area to improve the performance and efficiency of fiber-wireless links.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133390974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Q. Fang, Junfeng Song, T. Liow, L. Jia, Xianshu Luo, Mingbin Yu, G. Lo
{"title":"Cleaved fiber-to-nano waveguide mode converter for silicon photonics devices","authors":"Q. Fang, Junfeng Song, T. Liow, L. Jia, Xianshu Luo, Mingbin Yu, G. Lo","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6457944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6457944","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a high efficient fiber-to-waveguide mode converter is demonstrated on the SOI platform, which is composed of a suspended tapered SiO2 waveguide and overlapped Si nano-tapers. The overlapped Si nano-tapers are located in the center of suspended tapered SiO2 waveguide. With a refractive index (<;1.4) matching liquid, the coupling losses between the cleaved optical fiber and this converter are 1.5 dB/facet and 2.1 dB/facet for TE and TM modes, respectively. The 1 dB bandwidths for both TE and TM modes are more than 100 nm. The alignment tolerances for both TE and TM modes are ± 2.5 μm and 2.0 μm for 1 dB excess loss in horizontal direction and vertical direction, respectively.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133850233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Mathews, D. Callaghan, Y. Semenova, G. Rajan, G. Farrell
{"title":"Photonic crystal fiber strain sensors for laparoscopic surgical devices","authors":"S. Mathews, D. Callaghan, Y. Semenova, G. Rajan, G. Farrell","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6458053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6458053","url":null,"abstract":"Miniature photonic crystal fiber strain sensors with a typical size ~ 200 μm are fabricated and employed as force measurement sensors for a laparoscopic surgical device. The strain transfer characteristics and strain sensitivity of photonic crystal fiber interferometric sensors fixed onto the clipping arm of a commercial endoscopic clip applicator are studied and presented.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115677181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moon-Ki Hong, Sang-Min Jung, I. Kartiwa, Sang‐Kook Han
{"title":"12-Gbit/s DMT transmission based on 1-GHz RSOA with mitigated rayleigh backreflection employing 10-MHz clipping of optical seed carrier","authors":"Moon-Ki Hong, Sang-Min Jung, I. Kartiwa, Sang‐Kook Han","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6457973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6457973","url":null,"abstract":"We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel transmission technique for 12-Gbit/s DMT in a 20-km single fiber loopback using a 1-GHz RSOA. Rayleigh backreflection noise, which has been a critical obstacle in a single fiber loopback, could be drastically mitigated by employing 10-MHz RF clipping modulation of an optical seed carrier.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114269304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Dambul, G. Mahdiraji, F. Amirkhan, D. Chow, G. Gan, W. Wong, M. R. Abu Hassan, S. Ismail, S. A. Ibrahim, N. Tamchek, F. Adikan
{"title":"Fabrication and development of Flat Fibers","authors":"K. Dambul, G. Mahdiraji, F. Amirkhan, D. Chow, G. Gan, W. Wong, M. R. Abu Hassan, S. Ismail, S. A. Ibrahim, N. Tamchek, F. Adikan","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6458091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6458091","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the parameters that affect the fabrication of Flat Fibers, including preform size and doping, furnace temperature, preform feed speed, fiber drawing speed, fiber dimension, fiber quality and shape, vacuum pressure and core dimension. The feed and draw speed generally follows the simplified mass conservation law to draw the fiber to a specific dimension. The preform wall thickness affects the vacuum pressure and furnace temperature that is needed to `flatten' the fiber. The preform wall thickness is directly proportional to the volume of glass inside the neck-down region. The wall thickness of the preform and its dopant will also affect the size of the cladding and core dimension. Finally, some issues associated with the fabrication of Flat Fibers are also observed and discussed, including fabrication of Flat Fibers with non-uniform dimensions, deformed shapes, unwanted airholes and poor quality of the Flat Fibers.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123364484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhenyang Ding, Tiegen Liu, Kun Liu, Yang Du, Dingjie Li
{"title":"Monitoring optical fiber sensor networks by optical frequency-domain reflectometry","authors":"Zhenyang Ding, Tiegen Liu, Kun Liu, Yang Du, Dingjie Li","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6458067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6458067","url":null,"abstract":"To improve the reliability that are very important for large-scale and long range all optical fiber sensor networks, monitoring optical fiber sensor networks is necessary. We proposed a novel method for monitoring optical fiber sensor networks using optical frequency-domain reflectometry (OFDR) which provides a narrow spatial resolution that enables us to locate closely separated reflection and discrete sensors such as fiber sensing grating and other microstructure fiber sensors. Moreover, thanks to the inherently coherent detection, a high dynamic range can be realized that allows the measurement of Rayleigh backscattering throughout a fiber network. Namely, OFDR also can monitor distributed fiber sensors By using narrow linewidth laser, OFDR's monitoring range satisfies the requirements for long range optical fiber sensor networks. In our OFDR system proposed, we can achieve to monitor optical fiber sensor networks with measurement range of a few tens of kilometers in a sub-cm spatial resolution.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121716735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyung Woo Kim, Junfeng Song, Qing Liu, J. Kee, Y. Shin, Mi Kyung Park
{"title":"Development of multiplexed silicon dual microring sensor for the detection of bladder cancer markers","authors":"Kyung Woo Kim, Junfeng Song, Qing Liu, J. Kee, Y. Shin, Mi Kyung Park","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6458029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6458029","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an efficient multiplexed sensing system for detecting bladder cancer biomarkers without invasiveness, labeling, and high cost using a silicon-based dual microring resonator biosensor. The dual microring biosensor consists of a sensing microring and an electrical tracing microring. The working principle of the sensor is that a resonance wavelength shift of sensing ring is induced by the refractive index change resulted from biomarker binding to the ligand on the sensing microring. Then, the shift is traced and determined by the tracing ring through direct voltage supply. Also, we have shown the specific detection of HER-2 protein which is known as one of bladder cancer biomarker using the dual microring sensor.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121900924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and performance analysis of single substrate based 1×4 digital optical switches","authors":"G. Singh, V. Janyani, R. Kumar, A. Solanki","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6457933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6457933","url":null,"abstract":"With this work, for the first time a detailed modeling and performance analysis is presented for a single substrate based 1×4 digital optical switches with a channel profile of proton exchanged Lithium Niobate. Performance of the switches are optimized by theoretical controlled modeling of proton exchanged channel waveguides, electrode placement and with use of low less bends to maintain transition losses at low levels. Proposed structures are evaluated using beam propagation method for a range of driving voltage (10V-22V), with utilization of excellent electro-optic properties of the proton exchanged Lithium Niobate waveguides. The computed results for their performance are in good agreement with previous published data.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"22 6S 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122809236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Kee, S. Lim, A. P. Perera, M. K. Park, Yong Zhang
{"title":"Plasmonic nanohole array for biosensor applications","authors":"J. Kee, S. Lim, A. P. Perera, M. K. Park, Yong Zhang","doi":"10.1109/PGC.2012.6458037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PGC.2012.6458037","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the optical biosensing platform in plasmonic nanoholes array. The periodic nanohole structure of the biosensor and the gold coating of the sensor surface produce extraordinary light transmission (EOT) resonances of which the resonance peak shifts proportionately to the change of environment refractive index (RI). Detailed simulations studies were carried out to establish the resonance spectrum and sensitivity in relationship with the nanohole array pitch, diameter and gold thickness for hexagonal lattice arrangement. The plasmonic sensors were fabricated by top down approach utilizing mask-based deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography. The plasmonic nanohole sensor was tested with a direct coupling method of incident light which allows robust and sensitive sensing platform with minimal alignment requirements. The measured bulk refractive index sensitivity is 409.4 nm/RIU and the surface mass sensitivity is 1.802 nm/ng mm-2. The sensor structures have shown promising designs and performance for achieving compact and low-cost sensor for biosensing applications.","PeriodicalId":158783,"journal":{"name":"2012 Photonics Global Conference (PGC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125338372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}