Trends in Optical Fibre Metrology and Standards

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Historical Survey of Optical Signals and Optical Fibers

      • Silvério P. Almeida, Olivério D. D. Soares

      Pages 3-18

   3. Trends in Optical Fibre Metrology and Standards

      • Olivério D. D. Soares, Silvério P. Almeida

      Pages 19-43

3. Optical Fibres and Materials

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Polarized Light Evolution in Optical Fibres

      • J. Pelayo, F. Villuendas

      Pages 47-68

   3. Nonlinear Optical Fibres

      • Raman Kashyap

      Pages 69-102

   4. Exotic Fibres

      • F. Gauthier

      Pages 103-112

   5. Fibers and Fiber Lasers for the Mid-Infrared

      • Udo B. Unrau

      Pages 113-130

   6. Optical Fibres in Nuclear Radiation Environments

      • F. Berghmans, O. Deparis, S. Coenen, M. Decreton, P. Jucker

      Pages 131-156

4. Optical Fibre Components

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Connectors and Splices

      • J. Dubard

      Pages 159-173

   3. Optical Attenuators and Couplers Characterization

      • C. Le Men

      Pages 175-192

   4. Wavelength Division Multiplexers and the Measurement of the Channel Wavelengths

      • J. P. Laude

      Pages 193-208

   5. Active Fibre Characterisation with Passive Measurements

      • J. M. S. Anacleto, Modesto Morais, Gaspar Rego, O. D. D. Soares

      Pages 209-213

5. Optical Sources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Wavelength Tunable Laser Diodes and Their Applications

      • M. C. Amann

      Pages 217-240

   3. Active Components Characterization

      • C. Le Men

      Pages 241-260

6. Optical Fibre Amplifiers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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   2. Optical Amplifiers

      • Ivan Andonovic

      Pages 263-304

Fibre Optics has gained prominence in: telecommunications, data transmission and distribution, cable television networks, sensing and control, light probing and instrumentation. The 1990's shows an increased expansion of optical fibre networks which respond to the rapid growth on a world scale of long distance trunk lines combined with a family of emerging optical based services in which fibre-to-the-home will have the greatest impact. There is already evidence that optical communications are moving toward higher bit-rates, wavelength transparency and irrelevance of signal formats. The rate of change in fibre optics and the emergence of new services will be a mere consequence of economics. The actual increasing of cost and the demand for high-date-rates or large bandwidth per transmission channels, and the lack of available space in the congested conduits in urban areas, strongly favour the technological change to fibre optics. The recognised advantages of fibre optic technologies andthe unchallenged potential to respond to future needs requires the inclusion of fibre optics networking into new installations. Concomitantly, current progress in the field of optical fibres (optical fibre amplifiers, optical fibre switching, WDM, fibre gratings, etc.) unfold major technical advances and greater flexibility in the designs and engineering of networks, optical fibre components and instrumentation. The explosion of growth in fibre sensors, fibre probes and the myriad of fibre based components shows that we are only using a fraction of optical fibre potential.

• Potential
• Sensor
• Standard
• Trend
• calibration
• communication
• communication systems
• fiber optics
• measurement
• metrology
• optical communication
• optics
• sensors

• CETO — Centre de Ciências e Tecnologias Ópticas, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

  Olivério D. D. Soares

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