Abstract: Progress in optical fibre sensor research has often been achieved by taking advantage of components developed for use in telecommunications, where the greater existing market is able to ...

Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) is today's most commonly used Fourier OCT technique. Its spectrometer consists of crucial components, including a diffraction grating and a Line ...

Twisting and microforming an optical fibre provides it with unique chiral properties that are useful for polarization control, harsh-environment sensing and dense multichannel coupling to photonic ...

The velocity of light in vacuum, c, is approximately 3 × 10 8 m s −1, fast enough to make 7.5 round-the-world trips in a single second, and to move a distance of 300 mm in 1 ns. This ultrahigh speed ...