optical devices
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- Integrated optical components based on ion-exchanged glass waveguides are finding applications in real systems.
- Gain crosstalk in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) developed for WDM networks has in the past been a limiting factor in SOA deployment.
- Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is rapidly becoming a mainstream technology for high capacity optical communications.
- Enhanced optical properties of rare earth doped glasses for sundry applications are current challenges in materials science and technology.
- Sensors and microsystems are likely to become a major application for integrated optic technologies, second only to communications applications.
- Recently, optical sensors for detection of carbon dioxide (CO2) have been explored for variety of applications in chemistry, industry, and medicine.
- Organics have emerged as one of the most rapidly developing research areas for improved electro-optical materials.
- Optical waveguides are being explored for on-chip purposes to overcome the speed limitations of electrical interconnects.
- Tb 3+ doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Tb: YAG) is a very promising optical material.
- With the widespread application of various small aspheric optical components, high-precision manufacturing technology of forming molds is deeply demanded.
- Volume Phase Holographic Gratings (VPHGs) are dispersing elements which are finding wide spread in modern optical instrumentations, also in the astronomical field.
- The rapidly developing optical telecommunications, optical signal processing, optical logic systems and need for very large optical storage capacity call for cheap and highly performant nonlinear optical (NLO) materials.
- Compared to other semiconductors, zinc sulfide has a large direct band gap which makes it useful in a broad range of optical applications which demand high quality zinc sulfide films which are produced through the chemical vapor deposition method.
- Nonlinear optical (NLO) processes in pi-electron organic and polymer systems have attracted considerable interest because their understanding has led onto many compelling technological promise as well as the discovery of new phenomena, new theoretical insights, and new materials and devices.
- Over the past years, various attempts have been made to accurately model the radiation response of the optical attenuation in optical fibres for nuclear environments.
- Advanced optical materials with rational designs and tunable light transmission have been drawing increasing interest due to their great potential in energy-efficient buildings and on-demand optical devices.
- Integrated optical sensors for voltage and field measurement have intrinsic advantages over electronic sensors in terms of isolation from electronic instrumentations, large bandwidth, and immunity to electromagnetic interferences.