Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) are one of the most popular technology within fiber-optic
sensors, and they allow the measurement of mechanical, thermal, and physical parameters …

Reflecting changes in the field in the ten years since the publication of the first edition, The
Handbook of Photonics, Second Edition explores recent advances that have affected this …

The discovery of fibre optics has revolutionized the field of telecommunications making
possible high-quality, high-capacity, long distance telephone links. Over the past three …

Dispersion management is becoming paramount in high-speed wavelength-division-
multiplexed lightwave systems, that operate at per-channel rates of 40 Gb/s and higher. The …

A novel approach to optically generating chirped millimeter-wave pulses with tunable chirp
rate based on spectral sha** and nonlinear frequency-to-time map** is proposed and …

Microwave photonics (MWP) is an emerging filed in which photonic technologies are
employed to enable and enhance functionalities in microwave systems which are usually …

Binary and multilevel phase-only sampling functions are proposed for the sampled fiber
Bragg gratings (FBGs) with high channel count, which require significantly less refractive …

In this letter, we demonstrate a simple technique for dispersion monitoring by adding a
single inband subcarrier tone to the transmitted data signal. A measurable dispersion of up …

In this paper, we review our recent developments in the design and fabrication techniques
for high-channel-count fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). We have presented a theory for the …

Strain gauges based on fiber Bragg gratings are not only a well-developed field of research,
but also gain a wide market due to their high sensitivity, response speed, immunity to …