J. Lambert, T. Nakano, S. Law, N. Suchowerska, D. Mckenzie, S. Fleming
{"title":"A fibre optic dosimeter for prostate cancer therapy","authors":"J. Lambert, T. Nakano, S. Law, N. Suchowerska, D. Mckenzie, S. Fleming","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519223","url":null,"abstract":"Comparative measurements of the performance of a fibre optic dosimeter designed for prostate cancer therapy, a MOSFET and diamond detector are presented. The fibre optic dosimeter compares well with the alternatives.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"37 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":"127851704","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":"Two types of stationary solitons in dissipative systems","authors":"A. Ankiewicz, N. Akhmediev, N. Devine","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519230","url":null,"abstract":"Using the method of moments for optical solitons, we show that there are two disjoint sets of fixed points. These correspond to stationary or exploding solitons of the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE).","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"15 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":"128531905","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":"DFB FL sensor multiplexing noise","authors":"A. Tikhomirov, S. Foster","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519266","url":null,"abstract":"Up to 50 dB frequency noise increase was demonstrated for multiplexed DFB FL. Laser noise limitations of acoustic sensitivity of DFB FL sensors are discussed and ways to reduce DFB FL sensitivity to external reflections proposed.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"113 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":"117269863","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":"The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science: Physics, chemistry and biology working together.","authors":"K. Nugent","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519305","url":null,"abstract":"The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science will develop or use novel x-ray sources, such as the Australian Synchrotron, High Harmonic Generation Lasers and X-ray Free Electron Lasers, to solve problems in structural biology.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"12 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":"115551973","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":"Species of DPSK & DQPSK","authors":"K. Hinton","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519238","url":null,"abstract":"Three implementations of DPSK and five implementations of DQPSK are described and studied. Their ability to provide an upgrade to 40 Gbit/s over 10 Gbit/s infrastructure is compared. It is found that amplitude parallel modulator DQPSK provides the best option.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"186 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":"115553443","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":"Surface multi-gap solitons in nonlinear waveguide arrays","authors":"I. Garanovich, A. Sukhorukov, Y. Kivshar","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519293","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze nonlinear waves at the edge of a truncated periodic photonic structure, and predict that interband interactions may lead to collective wave localization and formation of surface multi-gap discrete optical solitons.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"11 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":"114727335","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. Bolger, J. Magné, M. Rochette, S. Larochelle, L.R. Chen, J. Azaña, B. Eggleton
{"title":"Ultrahigh speed pulse trains via superimposed fibre Bragg gratings and nonlinear wavelength conversion","authors":"J. Bolger, J. Magné, M. Rochette, S. Larochelle, L.R. Chen, J. Azaña, B. Eggleton","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519315","url":null,"abstract":"Wavelength tunable 100 GHz pulse trains are generated by reflection of a 10 GHz fibre laser from a three-fold superimposed fibre Bragg grating, followed by wavelength conversion in a nonlinear optical loop mirror.","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":"126074876","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":"Polarisation mode coupling in (100)-cut Nd:YAG","authors":"A. Mckay, Jong-Dae Park, J. Dawes","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519328","url":null,"abstract":"We model and measure the coupling between orthogonally-polarized laser states for (100)-oriented Nd:YAG. We relate the coupling phenomenon to the strength of the self- heterodyne beat in dual-frequency lasers.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"26 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":"126422113","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}
B. Kouskousis, N. Dragomir, C. Rollinson, S. Wade, D. Kitcher, S. Collins, A. Roberts, G. Baxter
{"title":"Comparison between a simulated and measured image of a fibre Bragg grating","authors":"B. Kouskousis, N. Dragomir, C. Rollinson, S. Wade, D. Kitcher, S. Collins, A. Roberts, G. Baxter","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519219","url":null,"abstract":"A model of the refractive index modulation produced during fibre Bragg grating fabrication, using the phase mask technique has been established, assuming a linear relationship between refractive index and the irradiated intensity. Results are compared to the imaged refractive index modulation of a Type I fibre Bragg grating produced in the core of an optical fibre.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"37 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":"123766638","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}
N. Baker, H.W. Lee, I. Littler, D. Choi, S. Madden, B. Luther-Davies, C. D. de Sterke, B. Eggleton
{"title":"Fabrication of sampled Bragg gratings in highly nonlinear integrated chalcogenide (As2S3) waveguides","authors":"N. Baker, H.W. Lee, I. Littler, D. Choi, S. Madden, B. Luther-Davies, C. D. de Sterke, B. Eggleton","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519296","url":null,"abstract":"We report the fabrication of high quality sampled Bragg gratings in highly nonlinear integrated chalcogenide (As2S3) rib-waveguides using a modified Sagnac interferometer. Experimental spectra are in good agreement with theory.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"3 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":"122201408","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}