Over the past two decades, fiber laser technologies have matured to such an extent that they
have captured a large portion of the commercial laser marketplace. Yet, there still is a …

This book explains physical principles, unique benefits, broad categories, implementation
aspects, and performance criteria of distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS). For each kind …

All voice and data communications employ silica glass optical fiber at some point in their
nearly instantaneous transmission. This is enabled globally by the annual production of over …

From a materials perspective optical fibers are victims of their own success. The advent of
the laser, 50 yr ago, coupled with an insatiable demand for information enabled by light …

In binary aluminosilicate liquids and glasses, heterogeneity on intermediate length scale is a
crucial factor for optical fiber performance, determining the lower limit of optical attenuation …

Aluminosilicate fibers have very low Brillouin scattering gain coefficients, making them
interesting fibers for nonlinear optical applications. We manufactured Bragg gratings in high …

Specialty optical fibers employed in Brillouin-based distributed sensors are briefly reviewed.
The optical and acoustic waveguide properties of silicate glass optical fiber first are …

A sapphire derived fiber (SDF) based Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) with an etched micro
air cavity for strain measurement at high temperatures is proposed. The FPI is formed by …

Presented here for the first time to the best of our knowledge is a detailed Brillouin
spectroscopic study of novel, highly-BaO-doped silica glass optical fibers. The fibers were …

The photoelastic constants of the alumina component in aluminosilicate optical fibers are
evaluated and determined to be p 11=− 0.237±0.020 and p 12=− 0.027±0.012, thus …