{"title":"Low loss Chalcogenide glass waveguides fabricated by hot embossing","authors":"T. Han, S. Madden, D. Bulla, B. Luther-Davies","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929910","url":null,"abstract":"We report the fabrication of Chalcogenide glass rib waveguides by thermal nano-imprint. Waveguides 2-4μm wide and 1μm high were fabricated with optical losses of 0.24dB/cm and 0.29dB/cm for TM and TE polarizations at 1550nm.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"34 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":"125589475","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":"Calibrating phase mask motion using direct phase modulation of the diffracted orders","authors":"J. Arkwright, H. Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929882","url":null,"abstract":"The motion of a transmission phase mask used to write fibre Bragg gratings has been calibrated to within +/-1nm by retro-reflecting pairs of diffraction orders to form a simple Michelson interferometer.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"109 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":"123062901","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}
I. Kabakova, D. Halliwell, C. D. de Sterke, Z. Yu, W. Margulis, P. Fonjallaz, O. Tarasenko
{"title":"Observation of frequency shift in a dynamically tuned fiber grating cavity by a beating technique","authors":"I. Kabakova, D. Halliwell, C. D. de Sterke, Z. Yu, W. Margulis, P. Fonjallaz, O. Tarasenko","doi":"10.1364/CLEO_SI.2011.CWC6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2011.CWC6","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic frequency changes of light trapped in a fiber grating-based cavity, which is detuned by RF pulses, are detected by a simple, elegant, high-resolution method in which the trapped light beats with the incoming light.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"25 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":"133832473","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}
F. Li, C. Grillet, S. D. Jackson, P. Krug, E. Magi, C. Monat, Y. Moghe, A. Read, S. Duvall, P. Atanackovic, B. Eggleton, David J. Moss
{"title":"Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire integrated waveguides","authors":"F. Li, C. Grillet, S. D. Jackson, P. Krug, E. Magi, C. Monat, Y. Moghe, A. Read, S. Duvall, P. Atanackovic, B. Eggleton, David J. Moss","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929919","url":null,"abstract":"We report low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for potential applications to mid infrared optics. We achieve propagation losses <; 1dB/cm in the 1550nm wavelength range and show these devices have potential out to 6 μm.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"176 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":"132185377","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}
F. Li, M. Pelusi, A. Densmore, R. Ma, D. Xu, S. Janz, D. Moss
{"title":"All-optical time-division demultiplexing at 160Gb/s and 640Gb/s via FWM in a silicon nanowire","authors":"F. Li, M. Pelusi, A. Densmore, R. Ma, D. Xu, S. Janz, D. Moss","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929918","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate all-optical time division demultiplexing from 160Gb/s and 640Gb/s, down to10Gb/s in the C-band, based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a silicon nanowire. We achieve efficient demultiplexing at both bit rates and at 160Gb/s obtain error-free operation with a system penalty of ~3.9dB at 10-9 BER.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"121 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":"130534501","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":"Dip-style viscometer based on acoustic wave excitation of long period fibre grating","authors":"R. A. Oliveira, J. Canning, K. Cook, A. Pohl","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929899","url":null,"abstract":"A viscometer based on damping of an acoustically excited fibre long period grating (LPG) is described.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"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":"116775247","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":"Coherent optical transmission in commercial optical networks","authors":"M. O'sullivan","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929935","url":null,"abstract":"The availability of transmission based on coherent detection and enabled by DSP is defining an epoch in the delivery of commercial optical networks.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"44 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":"116052546","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}
P. Naseri, S. Fleming, N. Suchowerska, D. Mckenzie
{"title":"Air core metallic light guides for scintillation dosimetery in radiotherapy","authors":"P. Naseri, S. Fleming, N. Suchowerska, D. Mckenzie","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929932","url":null,"abstract":"Cerenkov radiation introduces an unwanted background in scintillation dosimeters coupled to an optical fibre used for megavoltage radiotherapy, causing inaccuracies. We analyse propagation in air core light guides which do not suffer from this problem.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"2 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":"132586966","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":"Elliptical CO2 laser beam tapering of pressurised bismuth microstructured optical fiber","authors":"K. Boyd, D. Murphy, J. Munch, T. Monro","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929888","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate controlled, adiabatic tapering of pressurized bismuth hexagonal microstructured optical fibers, enabling holes of diameters <; 300 nm, with controlled collapse, and core sizes <; 1 μm using an elliptical CO2 laser beam profile.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"1 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":"130500855","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":"Low noise multiwavelength avalanche photodiode","authors":"C. K. Chia","doi":"10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929895","url":null,"abstract":"A Monte Carlo simulation suggests extremely low noise can be obtained in the Ge/AlxGa1-xAs avalanche photodiodes (APDs). These APDs are versatile for multiple-wavelength detection at 850, 1310 and 1550 nm for applications in data- and tele-communications.","PeriodicalId":338472,"journal":{"name":"35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology","volume":"23 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":"132846411","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}