Andrea Ventura, J. Lousteau, F. B. Slimen, N. White, F. Poletti
{"title":"Development of Mid-IR Fiber Bundle for Thermal Imaging","authors":"Andrea Ventura, J. Lousteau, F. B. Slimen, N. White, F. Poletti","doi":"10.5220/0006639502590265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006639502590265","url":null,"abstract":"We present and discuss the fabrication and characterization of a Mid-Infrared (Mid-IR) transparent flexible bundle based on 1200 fibers whose cores consist of a Ge30As13Se32Te25 chalcogenide glass and the cladding of a Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP). The Mid-IR fiber bundle was manufactured using the stack and draw method. The high index contrast between the glass and the cladding allows for strong field confinement of the well guided modes within the chalcogenide glass core transparent across the Mid-IR. Higher order modes, which could be prone to cross talk, suffered high losses thanks to the high attenuation offered by the polymer cladding. Additionally, the FEP cladding confers the bundle mechanical flexibility. Following a qualitative thermal imaging assessment, we also present and discuss the experimental loss measurements of the fiber bundle and we compare them to values obtained through modelling to conclude on the potential prospect of the manufactured bundle and its possible improvements.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"4304 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134313071","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":"Characterization of High Speed Optical Detectors for Purpose of OM4 Fibre Qualification: Selective Mode Detection","authors":"F. Achten, D. Molin","doi":"10.5220/0006541201410147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006541201410147","url":null,"abstract":"The most important characterization of OM4 fibre is the ‘Differential Mode Delay’ (DMD) measurement. The measured DMD profile is some kind of ‘roadmap’ of the OM4 fibre; it contains all relevant data from which the main optical parameters are computed (for instance ‘Effective Modal Bandwidth’). Most requirements for the measurement equipment are well defined within standardization documents. However the requirements for the detector are still under discussion. This paper shows the state of the art of commercially available detectors (high speed optical electrical converters, fibre coupled) from different manufacturers. A method to characterize these detectors is suggested, and it shows the ‘ideal’ detector is not yet commercially available.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133418280","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":"Resonant Tunnelling and Optical-mechanical Analogy - Overcoming of Blackout Problem","authors":"A. Bogatskaya, N. Klenov, A. Popov","doi":"10.5220/0006542901480154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006542901480154","url":null,"abstract":"We report on using the optical mechanical analogy to study the propagation of the electromagnetic wave in through the plasma layer surrounding the hypersonic object moving in dense gaseous medium. This analogy allows us to consider plasma sheath surrounding the object as a potential barrier and analyse the process of electromagnetic wave tunneling. The idea is to embed a dielectric layer as a «resonator» between the surface of the object and plasma sheath which is supposed to provide an effective tunneling regime. We discuss the peculiarities of optical mechanical analogy applicability and analyse the radio frequency wave tunnelling regime in detail. The cases of normal and oblique incidence of radiofrequency waves on the vehicle surface are studied. The analysis is applied for a problem of overcoming of the communication blackout during the hypersonic vehicle re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133701612","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":"Transmitter Design Proposal for the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol using Polarization Modulated Vertical Cavity Surface-emitting Lasers","authors":"Ágoston Schranz, E. Udvary","doi":"10.5220/0006638002520258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006638002520258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114575165","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. A. Castro-Arata, M. Goryaev, A. Kononov, Y. Saito, P. Fons, J. Tominaga, N. Anisimova, A. Kolobov
{"title":"Dielectric Relaxation and Photo-electromotive Force in Ge-Sb-Te/Si Structures","authors":"R. A. Castro-Arata, M. Goryaev, A. Kononov, Y. Saito, P. Fons, J. Tominaga, N. Anisimova, A. Kolobov","doi":"10.5220/0009154201460150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0009154201460150","url":null,"abstract":"The dielectric properties and photovoltaic effect spectra in the compositions of amorphous layers GeSb2Te4 (GST 124), Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST 225) и GeSb4Te7 (GST 147) applied on the monocrystallic silicon surface are investigated. It is shown that with a change in the GST composition, both the dielectric capacitivity and the frequency at which the maximum dielectric loss is observed change. It was found that the value of the change in photo-electromotive force is different for different layers: on samples with GST 124, the influence of amorphous layers is by an order of magnitude greater than for GST 225, and by 3 orders of magnitude greater than for GST 147.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117234837","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":"High Speed Measurement in Spectral Drill using Q-plate and Camera","authors":"S. Ohno, K. Miyamoto, S. Hayashi, N. Sekine","doi":"10.5220/0008959400970099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0008959400970099","url":null,"abstract":"We have proposed a method to scan resonance modes in a Fabry-Pérot cavity applying a geometric phase shifter, named as spectral drill. When the geometric phase shifter consists of two quarter wave plates and a half wave plate sandwiched by them is put into a cavity, the resonance modes can be scanned by the rotation of the half wave plate. Since a mechanical rotation stage has been used for scanning the cavity in our prior works, the scanning rate was limited by the rotational speed of the stage. In this work, by replacing the half wave plate to a q-plate with removing the mechanical stage and by taking transmission images by a camera, we succeeded in 720 times faster acquisition of the transmission spectrum of the spectral drill.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117288267","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":"Nonlinear Trapping and Interfering Modes in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Microcavity Laser","authors":"M. Pieczarka, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, G. Sȩk","doi":"10.5220/0006637302420246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0006637302420246","url":null,"abstract":"Experimental studies of the emission from one-dimensional microcavity laser structure under nonresonant optical excitation are presented. The one-dimensional laser was prepared by electron-beam lithography and reactive ion etching from a planar microcavity sample. Below the lasing threshold, the system was in the strong coupling regime, where the emission exhibits the common exciton-polariton far-field dispersion. Above the threshold, the system switched to the weak coupling regime and the photon lasing was observed. Interestingly, under higher pumping powers above the threshold, a strong blueshift of the lasing mode was observed, with localisation of the far-field emission at finite wavevectors. The near-field images showed interference fringes corresponding to the interference of propagating modes in k-space. This is interpreted in terms of self-interfering modes confined between the pumping spot and the edges of the 1D microlaser.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117314116","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":"BER based Assessment of Spectral and Energy Efficiency in a Two-tier Heterogeneous Network","authors":"Jasmin Musovic, Adriana Lipovac, V. Lipovac","doi":"10.5220/0010852600003121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0010852600003121","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze an arbitrary heterogeneous cellular network applying stochastic geometry, and propose a modified model for assessing network spectral and energy efficiency. With this regard, we recognize that, in practice, determining Signal-to-Noise-and-Interference Ratio (SINR) as the key performance indicator, requires complex field test equipment, which might not be available or affordable. Therefore, we propose here a simple model that is based on the relatively easy measurable Bit-Error Rate (BER), whose degradation caused by various impairments is considered here as if it was due to the according additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN), thus abstracting any specific non-AWGN distortion. The proposed analytical model is verified by ns3 software network simulator, whose test results are found to match the corresponding estimated values. This indicates that both spectral and energy efficiencies of small-cell networks are higher than in larger-cell networks, even more for heterogeneous two-tier networks.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115573284","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":"Measuring Centers of Special Targets in Digital Still Images and Movie Frames: Approach and Evaluation","authors":"S. Takhirov","doi":"10.5220/0010392901360142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0010392901360142","url":null,"abstract":"Digital cameras are undergoing explosive developments. As a result, high-resolution digital cameras have become very affordable, especially with the latest growth in smart phone technologies. Hence, the usage of existing measuring technologies and the development of new measuring technologies utilizing digital cameras is in high demand. This paper utilizes special black and white patterns, the so-called targets, to measure the relative displacement between two points. The paper introduces a new approach in measuring the location of their centers that is based on best fitting the transition zones to straight lines. The intersection of these lines produces the location of the center with sub-pixel accuracy. A special experimental rig was designed and built to evaluate the approach and compare the measurements to those obtained by a conventional position transducer connected to a data acquisition system. In the first part of the paper, the accuracy of the position transducer and the experimental setup is discussed. It is shown that the accuracy of the setup is much greater than the measurement expected from the digital images. Based on this, it was used as a reference system to evaluate the approach. In the second half of the paper, the approach is evaluated based on monitoring two targets. One of them is fixed and serves as a reference point, whereas another one is floating. The latter can move along the linear bearing system axis, which is orthogonal to the axis of the camera lens. The displacements of the floating target in respect to the fixed target were measured by a position transducer connected to a data acquisition system. The relative displacement of the floating target is captured by the digital camera and is based on the current location of the floating and fixed targets. This paper shows adequate accuracy of the approach and provides recommendations on the ways of keeping it at high accuracy for practical applications in experimental earthquake engineering.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114922962","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":"Research on Multi-wavelength and Multi-beam Illumination for Improving Object Illumination Uniformity","authors":"Quan Sun, Y. Ing, Yi Yang, B. Yan, Shaojun Du","doi":"10.5220/0007356301200124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0007356301200124","url":null,"abstract":"The imaging and tracking to the far dim objects in the air are usually difficult for detecting system to get their clear images and accurate positions, due to the objects neither emitting light nor reflecting sunlight. Using active laser illumination technology, the target will be illuminated and the echo intensity of target can be increased. The laser intensity spatial distribution on the target plane fluctuates usually remarkably due to the atmospheric turbulence and other causes, which will decrease image resolution and tracking accuracy in optical system. In this paper, we presented a method of using illumination with the supercontinuum spectrum laser beam combination to improve the effect of target illumination uniformity. As the atmosphere transmittance ratios differs with wavelength, we set up a multi-wavelength and multi-beam target illumination simulation system to represent the supercontinuum spectrum laser illumination effect. As the previous simulation results and the experimental results, which both reflect an improving effect of illumination uniformity significantly by increasing of the beam number. The illumination uniformity of single beam with multi-wavelength spectrum components was analyzed, and the simulation results of one single beam, three beams and six beams with 9 wavelength spectrum were compared, which showed that the illumination uniformity in target plane was improved with both the number of wavelength spectrum components and the number of beams increasing. It showed that multi-spectral multi-beam illumination had great advantages in improving illumination uniformity and the supercontinuum laser can be a good active illumination source.","PeriodicalId":294758,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115598268","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}