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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A cylindrical light diffuser has been developed mainly for medical applications, including photodynamic therapy (PDT), in particular interstitial PDT, PDT of the bronchi, or intravascular PDT. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS: T ...
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a high speed local area network operating at 100Mbps using a fiber optic ring transmission medium. The purpose of this paper is to build a Petri net model for the FDDI media access control (MAC) protocol. This mod ...
An IgA-producing hybridoma cell line has been grown in two hollow-fiber reactors and one fluidized-bed reactor, using a serum-contg. medium and a protein-free medium. Comparisons have been made on the basis of product quantity (total IgA) and quality (acti ...
A new class of active fiber devices based on piezoelectric coated optical fibers is currently being developed. The piezoelectric coating is used to produce acoustic waves within the optical fiber and these acoustic waves interfere with optical signals pass ...
This paper examines the mechanisms by which a polymer is dispersed in a co-rotating twin-screw extruder. An experimental investigation of the morphological evolution has been carried out on a 45-mm co-rotating twin-screw extruder. Polyethylene/polystyrene ...
Wavelength demultiplexing is a very promising application of photoinduced fiber gratings. In this paper efficient outcoupling of a very narrow wavelength band, in addition to the usual guided Bragg reflection, is presented. The selective outcoupling gratin ...
Strong correlation between index change and stress change in irradiated optical fibers is reported. The stress increases with fluence. Stress changes and hence index changes seem to be due to a compaction of the fiber core ...
The failure of fiber-reinforced ceramic and metal matrix composites under a fixed load for extended times occurs because of strength degradation in the constituent fibers. Specifically, the ceramic fibers possess a Weibull strength distribution caused by c ...
A novel surveillance system for installed fiber optic cables is presented. It is based on the analysis of the local stimulated Brillouin scattering interaction. The configuration of the instrument rely on the use of a single laser source and the required l ...
A novel kind of fiber-optic gyroscope based on Rayleigh backscattering in a fiber-ring resonator is presented in this letter. Information on the rotation rate is obtained from the composed response of the fiber ring to an optical time-domain reflectometry ...
