{"title":"Randomly microstructured polymer optical fibre","authors":"G. Town, R. M. Chaplin, M. Withford, D. Baer","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519226","url":null,"abstract":"Microstructured polymer optical fibre was fabricated in which bubbles were randomly distributed in the fibre cladding. The bubbles partly guided and partly scattered light propagating in the fibre core.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"5 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":"132964160","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":"Slow light in nonlinear fibre Bragg gratings","authors":"J. Mok, M. de Sterke, I. Littler, B. Eggleton","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519278","url":null,"abstract":"We observe slow gap solitons of width 0.68 ns propagating through a fibre Bragg grating, with a group velocity of ~c/6. Nonlinearity maintains the pulses' temporal width, which would otherwise undergo dispersive broadening.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"84 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":"133509030","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}
E. Sinchenko, G. McAdam, C. Davis, S. McDonald, I. McKenzie, P. J. Newman, P. Stoddart
{"title":"Optical fibre techniques for distributed corrosion sensing","authors":"E. Sinchenko, G. McAdam, C. Davis, S. McDonald, I. McKenzie, P. J. Newman, P. Stoddart","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519220","url":null,"abstract":"There is a need to monitor corrosion processes occurring over large engineering structures. A variety of fluorescence-based sensing techniques have been considered. The applicability of these techniques to optical fibre distributed corrosion sensing is discussed.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"51 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":"131212215","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":"Bend loss in silica optical fibre with low refractive index coating","authors":"D. Bulla, J. Love","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519218","url":null,"abstract":"Silica optical fibre, coated with low refractive index material, was characterized against bend losses. The fibre showed low bend loss compared with similar fibre coated with standard refractive index material, and with a standard SMF.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"5 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":"125835429","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":"Birefringent optical fiber with a photonic crystal core","authors":"J.J. Hu, M. Yan, P. Shum","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519250","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic crystals with reduced symmetry are introduced into a fiber's core to induce birefringence between the two nearly-orthogonal fundamental modes. We provide our preliminary findings on the birefringence property of such fibers through numerical calculations.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"6 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":"130220484","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":"Solar hypersensitisation of optical fibres","authors":"B. Ashton, M. Stevenson, J. Canning","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519234","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrogen-loaded fibres were exposed to solar radiation for 20 days in which time the hydrogen was allowed to out-diffuse. Gratings written in these fibres show an increased photosensitivity compared to pristine fibre.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"2 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":"130283352","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}
Giang Nguyen, Y. Visagathilagar, Arnan Mitchell, T. Nguyen, Y. Visagathilagar
{"title":"Cascaded multicavity resonantly enhanced Mach-Zehnder modulator","authors":"Giang Nguyen, Y. Visagathilagar, Arnan Mitchell, T. Nguyen, Y. Visagathilagar","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519263","url":null,"abstract":"A resonantly enhanced modulator structure with cascaded multiple resonant cavities is proposed and analyzed. The microwave effective index of the electrode can be much higher than the optical index. Therefore, the electrode structure can be optimized for high modulation efficiency and high resonant enhancement.","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":"128910493","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":"Second order interference - from nonlinear optics to GPS","authors":"M. Hamilton","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519236","url":null,"abstract":"Four-time fourth-order correlations of a wave field can lead to second order interference fringes that have a purely statistical origin. I will present possible application of this effect to GPS positioning.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"36 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":"124979208","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. Bakaul, A. Nirmalathas, C. Lim, D. Novak, R. Waterhouse
{"title":"Modified WDM optical interface for performance enhancement of millimetre-wave fibre-radio networks","authors":"M. Bakaul, A. Nirmalathas, C. Lim, D. Novak, R. Waterhouse","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519310","url":null,"abstract":"A modified WDM optical interface with the capability to enable OADM functionality as well as delivering uplink optical carrier to the base stations of millimeter-wave fibre- radio systems is proposed and demonstrated. The incorporation of the modification enhances the performance of both uplink and downlink transmission significantly.","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":"125029614","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":"Iterative phase retrieval of Fresnel diffraction data: Characterization of focused beams","authors":"C. Henderson, H. Quiney, K. Nugent","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519326","url":null,"abstract":"An iterative phase retrieval algorithm has been developed that determines the structure of nanoscale noncrystalline objects from their diffraction patterns. We have used this approach to characterize the wavefield of an focused optical laser source. This forms an integral component of more elaborate schemes currently under development to determine molecular structures from X-ray diffraction data.","PeriodicalId":244615,"journal":{"name":"ACOFT/AOS 2006 - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society","volume":"115 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":"114364604","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}