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This thesis presents new developments on the different intrinsic failure mechanisms of silica optical fibres and fibre Bragg gratings with regard to applications in the fields of telecommunications and metrology. These failure mechanisms are mainly due to ...
In view of the laboratory tests performed at PSI with a Nafion tubular membrane reactor module for the catalysed methanol synthesis with CO2 and H-2 at 200 degrees C, the mechanical stability of a commercially available Nafion hollow fiber was tested at el ...
A complete set-up for local annealing of Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) is proposed. Such alloys, when plastically deformed at a given low temperature, have the ability to recover a previously memorised shape simply by heating up to a higher temperature. They f ...
In order to improve the reliability of micro-spot welding of metal parts in production such as e.g. in electron guns for TV picture tubes, real-time information about the evolution of the welding process should be available to allow on-line modification of ...
We present a hybrid probe for scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), which consists of a micromachined photoplastic tip with a metallic aperture at the apex that is attached to an optical fiber, thus combining the advantages of optical fiber probes ...
We report on the application of double-clad doped fiber amplifiers for coherent space communication systems using a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) design at 1.06 μm. The master oscillator is either a single-frequency Nd:YAG solid-state laser or a ...
We investigated the effect of the phase noise of fiber amplifiers on the linewidth of the amplified signal. We used three different sources as input signal, with linewidth between 5 kHZ and 18 GHz. We did not observe any spectral broadening of the signal l ...
For large cable-in-conduit conductors, a current unbalance among the strands may be the reason for reduced performance in both de and pulsed operation, The resistance distribution of the strands at the conductor termination has been investigated as the kev ...
We demonstrate the possibility of broadening the emissions spectra of superfluorescent fiber lasers by combinations of different kinds of single-mode doped silica fibers. We obtained an optical bandwidth of more than 70 nm (FWHM) between 1030 and 1100 nm u ...
In order to improve the reliability of micro-spot welding of metal parts in production such as e.g. in electron guns for TV picture tubes, real-time information about the evolution of the welding process should be available to allow on-line modification of ...
