{"title":"Controlled fabrication of tunable delay using compound phase shifted resonators","authors":"P. Orr, J. Canning, M. Stevenson, P. Niewczas","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929948","url":null,"abstract":"Fine tuned, narrowband group delay (“slow light”) is obtained using a compound phase shifted grating and superposing resonances. Both simulation and experiments are reported.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133029585","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 effects on fibre Bragg gratings in standard and low bend loss optical fibres","authors":"A. C. Thompson, W. Brown, P. Stoddart, S. Wade","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929958","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of relatively small bend diameters on fibre Bragg gratings written in standard and low bend loss fibre have been investigated. Results including Bragg wavelength shifts with bending are reported.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115231453","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":"Fabricating novel diamond waveguides using the focused ion beam hard mask","authors":"W. McKenzie, M. Hiscocks, F. Ladouceur","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929925","url":null,"abstract":"The Focused ion beam has been used to direct write a hard mask against the plasma etching of diamond. Nano-waveguides were fabricated from diamond-on-silica thin films close to ideal dimensions predicted via FIMMWAVE simulations.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124709394","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. Luther-Davies, X. Gai, A. Prasad, Steven J. Madden, D. Choi, Rongping Wang
{"title":"Chalcogenide glasses for nonlinear photonics","authors":"B. Luther-Davies, X. Gai, A. Prasad, Steven J. Madden, D. Choi, Rongping Wang","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929922","url":null,"abstract":"Chalcogenide glasses are important amorphous semiconductors used for phase-change memories, solar cells and in photonics. Here I will review their photonic applications with an emphasis on new glasses for high speed all-optical signal processing.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125690765","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}
G. Marien, N. Cvetojevic, N. Jovanovic, J. Dawes, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Haynes, J. Lawrence, Q. Parker, M. Withford
{"title":"Profiles of fibre Bragg grating stopbands for temporal spectral astronomy","authors":"G. Marien, N. Cvetojevic, N. Jovanovic, J. Dawes, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Haynes, J. Lawrence, Q. Parker, M. Withford","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929923","url":null,"abstract":"Temporal spectral astronomy studies astrophysical phenomena showing spectral variability on very short timescales. The use of fibre Bragg gratings converts the spectral detection into a photometric one, allowing for short timescale variations to be resolved.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115040764","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":"Influence of cladding refractive index on a distributed optical fibre chemical sensor","authors":"E. Sinchenko, W. Gibbs, A. Mazzolini, P. Stoddart","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929949","url":null,"abstract":"Refractive index dispersion in core and cladding materials affects the range and sensitivity of evanescent wave distributed optical fibre sensors. A convenient way of characterizing the broadband performance based on a supercontinuum light source is described.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124535613","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}
T. Vo, R. Pant, M. Pelusi, J. Schroder, D. Choi, S. Debbarma, S. Madden, B. Luther-Davies, B. Eggleton
{"title":"Photonic chip based all-optical logic gate for 40 Gbit/s and 160 Gbit/s DPSK signals","authors":"T. Vo, R. Pant, M. Pelusi, J. Schroder, D. Choi, S. Debbarma, S. Madden, B. Luther-Davies, B. Eggleton","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929955","url":null,"abstract":"We report the first demonstration of a photonic-chip based all-optical XOR gate for 40Gbit/s and 160Gbit/s phase-encoded signals. We achieve error-free, XOR operation for 40Gbit/s signals without power penalty in a dispersion-engineered chalcogenide waveguide.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"2519 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131346826","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":"Assessment and correction of imaging artifacts in skin imaging using fibre-based optical coherence tomography","authors":"Y. Liew, R. McLaughlin, A. Curatolo, D. Sampson","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929920","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports two types of imaging artifacts in 3D optical coherence tomography images of human skin - intensity deficits and geometrical distortion, and describes their reduction through the application of refractive index matching media.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134165864","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. Arkwright, N. Blenman, I. Underhill, S. Maunder
{"title":"Variations in fibre draw velocities inferred from the location of Bragg grating structures written during the draw","authors":"J. Arkwright, N. Blenman, I. Underhill, S. Maunder","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929883","url":null,"abstract":"The precise location of Bragg gratings written into optical fibre during the drawing process provides an accurate method of inferring variations in draw velocity and hence any potential subtle variations in fibre characteristics.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"47 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131728958","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":"Polymer optical fibre with enhanced surface properties via surface chemistry modifications","authors":"Kok Hou Wong, E. Min, F. Ladouceur","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929960","url":null,"abstract":"Surface properties of POF can be readily modified by various surface chemistry modification techniques. Many practical and novel properties including chemical resistance, thermal stability and electrical conductivity can be incorporated onto POF via these techniques.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"R-14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132933465","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}