Abstract:
Methods of selecting, from a set of like optical fibers, a subset of optical fibers that can meet both short-wavelength and target-wavelength bandwidth requirements are disclosed. The method includes obtaining short-wavelength bandwidth data from DMD measurements, and determining a peak wavelength for each optical fiber. A target-wavelength bandwidth is then calculated using the determined peak wavelengths. The calculated target bandwidth is then compared to the short-wavelength and target-wavelength bandwidth requirements to identify which of the optical fibers satisfy these requirements.
Abstract:
A probe including reflector is disclosed to measure the velocity distribution of a moving surface along many lines of sight. Laser light, directed to the surface by the probe and then reflected back from the surface, is Doppler shifted by the moving surface, collected into probe, and then directed to detection equipment through optic fibers. The received light is mixed with reference laser light and using photonic Doppler velocimetry, a continuous time record of the surface movement is obtained. An array of single-mode optical fibers provides an optic signal to one or more lens groups and a reflector, such as a parabolic reflector having a mirrored interior surface.
Abstract:
A first tunable wavelength pulse light source is driven by a reference signal to emit a first optical pulse. An optical demultiplexer demultiplexes a first optical pulse emitted from the first pulse light source into a reference optical pulse and an incident optical pulse to be sent into an object to be measured. An optical multiplexer multiplexes the reference optical pulse and an outgoing optical pulse passing through the object to output multiplexed light. A second pulse light source generates a second optical pulse which is synchronous with the first optical pulse and delays a predetermined time for each period of the first optical pulse. A sampling unit receives the multiplexed light and the second optical pulse to obtain an optical pulse train signal proportional to the intensity of the multiplexed light obtained in synchronism with the second optical pulse. From the optical pulse train signal from the sampling unit, a signal processor obtains an envelope formed by peaks of individual optical pulses forming the optical pulse train. The wavelength dispersion of the object is obtained by measuring the delay time of the outgoing optical pulse passing through the object on the basis of intervals between the peaks of the envelope.
Abstract:
An incident optical signal is captured by an array of apertures and directed to pairs of fibers, each pair having a delay fiber with a unique length and a no-delay fiber. Each pair of fibers further has a unique transmission characteristic. Time interpolation is then performed using the transmission characteristic curve for each delay fiber and the duration from the time the optical signal arrives over the no-delay fibers and the time the signal arrives over the delay fibers to determine the wavelength. In a second embodiment, each pair of delay and no-delay fibers is replaced by a fiber splitter which directs light into a no-delay fiber and a delay fiber that have been split from the input of the splitter. In a third embodiment, two fiber splitters are used in place of the pairs of fibers. Each splitter has a number of branches for receiving light and an output end for guiding light onto the photodetectors. The propagation time of the delay optical signal, as compared against the no-delay signal, and other factors such as the length of the individual fiber and the transmission characteristics, are used to determine the wavelength.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a timing state of a local oscillator (17) being synchronized by a timing signal (S T1 ) provided through one-way transmission from a remote master oscillator (6) through a dielectric waveguide (4). The method comprises the steps of: receiving (101) a first timing signal (S T 1 ) modulated on a first electromagnetic carrier having a first carrier wavelength (λ 1 ) and transmitted through the dielectric waveguide (4); receiving(101) a second timing signal (S T2 ) modulated on a second electromagnetic carrier having a second carrier wavelength (λ 2 ) different from the first carrier wavelength (λ 1 ) and transmitted through the dielectric waveguide (4) together with the first timing signal (S T1 ); providing(102) a signal (S diff ) indicative of a difference between a transmission time (T 1 ) of the first timing signal (S T1 ) and a transmission time (T 2 ) of the second timing signal (S T2 ) through the dielectric waveguide; and controlling (103) the timing state of the local oscillator (17) based on the first timing signal (S T1 )and the signal (S diff ) indicative of the difference between the transmission time (T 1 ) of the first timing signal (S T1 ) and the transmission time (T 2 ) of the second timing signal (S T2 ).