Distributed time-domain Brillouin scattering fiber sensors have been widely used to measure
the changes of the temperature and strain. The linear dependence of the temperature and …

This paper provides a technical review regarding the latest progress on orbital angular
momentum (OAM) based sensing technologies in many diverse applications. OAM has a …

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 …

This work presents a formation method of mechanically-induced long-period fiber gratings
using laminated plates. The mechanically-induced long-period fiber grating is temporarily …

We propose the generation of high-purity perfect cylindrical vector beams (PCVB) using the
Fourier transformation of Bessel–Gauss vector beams. The demonstration of PCVBs is …

A high-order-mode (HOM) Brillouin random fiber laser (BRFL) based on distributed Rayleigh
scattering in an all-few-mode fiber random cavity is proposed and experimentally …

Fiber fusion splicing tremendously affects the modal stability, insertion loss and transmission
quality of the optical fiber communication systems. Especially, in the few-mode fibers, a tiny …

The spectra of Brillouin scattering processes in optical fibers are affected by temperature,
axial strain, and other quantities of interest. This dependence forms the basis for optical …

Brillouin fiber sensors have demonstrated strong capability in discriminative and high-
sensitivity multiparameter measurements. In this study, we proposed and numerically …

We present a novel method to characterize the modal birefringence in a few-mode fiber
(FMF), based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. The method exploits two phenomena which …