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A novel approach, called pigtailing, is presented for the construction of optical detectors for capillary electrophoresis. Optical components and procedures from other fields, mainly telecommunications, are incorporated into these devices to give miniaturi ...
The authors describe an optical fiber link that is used in conjunction with the CERN host interface family to connect high-performance VAXes to VMEbus or FASTBUS over distances up to 1000 m. The modular construction allows other permutations, including VAX ...
An improved technique for chromatic dispersion measurements in single-mode fibers using phase-shift measurements is presented. The conventional experimental setup using a modulated light-emitting diode filtered by a monochromator as a light source, a fast ...
Polarization dispersion is an effect which may cause data rate penalty in optical links. This is caused by the combined effect of fibre birefringence and polarization couplings due to environmental perturbations. Polarization dispersion is therefore a stoc ...
Birefringent single-mode fibers with random polarization mode coupling and polarization dependent losses are considered. The effect of these losses on polarization mode dispersion (PMD) is computed. The relevant number is found to be the differential loss ...
The photolytic laser chem. vapor deposition (LCVD) rate of Pt from its hexafluoroacetylacetonate complex precursor was measured in situ and in real time. Optical transmission of the 350 nm photolysis light through the deposited Pt film and a transparent gl ...
Brillouin-gain-spectrum measurement along an optical fiber has recently gained a lot of interest owing to its potential for strain monitoring in installed cables and for distributed temperature sensing. We present a method that has the following advantages ...
Stretchable optical and electronic fibers constitute increasingly important building blocks for a myriad of applications, particularly in robotics, soft prosthesis, surgical tools and implants, and smart medical textiles. The integration of multimaterial a ...
