{"title":"On cascaded Raman amplifier control","authors":"P. Dower, P. Farrell, D. Nešić","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519231","url":null,"abstract":"Extremum seeking control is applied to the control of cascaded Raman amplifiers for long-haul wavelength division multiplexed optical communications systems. Simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of this control strategy.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132964307","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":"Optical material processing by synchrotron radiation","authors":"P. Stoddart, S. Wade, B. Smith, P. Kemeny","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519216","url":null,"abstract":"X-ray lithography techniques based on synchrotron radiation have been widely applied in photonic device fabrication. We discuss the potential for the fabrication of Bragg gratings in optical waveguide devices by means of synchrotron radiation.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"04 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130481787","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":"Integrated tunable microfluidic interferometer","authors":"C. Monat, P. Domachuk, C. Grillet, B. Eggleton","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519294","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a tunable optical filter/sensor based on a microfluidic interferometer integrated onto a compact planar chip. The interaction of the beam with a water/air interface provides a tunable Mach-Zehnder response with 28 dB extinction ratio.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125566349","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":"Monitoring of chromatic dispersion for 10 Gbit/s RZ modulation using asynchronous sampling","authors":"K. Clarke, T. Anderson, S. Dods","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519312","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a low cost method to distinguish RZ and NRZ data and monitor for the presence of chromatic dispersion via a simple asynchronous delay-tap method which does not require clock extraction.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123363459","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}
A. Michie, K. Digweed, J. Canning, B. Ashton, M. Stevenson, J. Digweed, I. Bassett, J. Haywood
{"title":"Spun highly birefringent (SHi-Bi) photonic crystal fibre","authors":"A. Michie, K. Digweed, J. Canning, B. Ashton, M. Stevenson, J. Digweed, I. Bassett, J. Haywood","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519235","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the fabrication of a spun hi-birefringence photonic crystal fibre. The measured elliptical birefringence of 1.6times10-3 which is an order of magnitude larger than conventional stress spun hi-birefringence optical fibres.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126255986","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}
Hua Yu, D. Heywood, S. C. Bell, D. Sheludko, R. Scholten
{"title":"Atomic absorption frequency reference bandwidth limit","authors":"Hua Yu, D. Heywood, S. C. Bell, D. Sheludko, R. Scholten","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519327","url":null,"abstract":"We show that the bandwidth for a conventional atomic vapour absorption frequency reference is limited by the atomic lifetime, and propose higher bandwidth frequency discrimination using atomic coherence mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"46 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114110993","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}
R. Fischer, D. Neshev, W. Krolikowski, Y. Kivshar, D. Iturbe-Castillo, S. Chávez-Cerda, R. Meneghetti, D. P. Caetano, J. Hickmann
{"title":"Observation of spatial shift in interaction of dark nonlocal solitons","authors":"R. Fischer, D. Neshev, W. Krolikowski, Y. Kivshar, D. Iturbe-Castillo, S. Chávez-Cerda, R. Meneghetti, D. P. Caetano, J. Hickmann","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519283","url":null,"abstract":"We study experimentally and theoretically a two- dimensional interaction of dark solitons in thermal defocusing medium. We report on the experimental observation of a spatial shift occurring at the intersection of obliquely interacting dark solitons. Numerical modeling reveals that this new effect is due to the nonlocal character of thermal nonlinearity.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122598227","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}
R. Fischer, D. Neshev, S. López-Aguayo, A. Desyatnikov, A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, Y. Kivshar
{"title":"Localization of light in Bessel photonic lattices","authors":"R. Fischer, D. Neshev, S. López-Aguayo, A. Desyatnikov, A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, Y. Kivshar","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519286","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the experimental observation of nonlinear localization of light in azimuthally modulated Bessel photonic lattices. These lattices are optically induced in a photorefractive crystal and resemble multiple-core highly nonlinear microstructure fibers.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121777175","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}
M. Byrne, L. Botten, A. Asatryan, N. Nicorovici, A. Norton, R. McPhedran, C. D. de Sterke
{"title":"Fano resonances of photonic crystal slabs","authors":"M. Byrne, L. Botten, A. Asatryan, N. Nicorovici, A. Norton, R. McPhedran, C. D. de Sterke","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519221","url":null,"abstract":"A Bloch mode theory for diffraction of plane waves by planar PC slabs is developed. The theory provides physical insight into the origin of Fano resonances, allowing a simple pole model to be deduced rigorously.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133976146","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":"Wdm channel spacing in ultra long haul optical OFDM systems","authors":"L. Du, Arthur James Lowery, J. Armstrong","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519261","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the effect of WDM channel spacing on a 4000 km system using optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for dispersion compensation. We find that channel spacings > 25 GHz approach the single-channel nonlinear limit.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116745663","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}