Optical Fiber Devices: Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2024) | Viewed by 1261
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Beyond playing a primary role as distribution elements in global communications networks, optical fiber technologies can enable many other essential functionalities, such as signal processing, distributed sensing, chromatic dispersion compensation, optical amplification, or signal generation. They find applications in a wide range of scenarios, including optical distribution networks, next-generation fiber–wireless communications, broadband measurement instrumentation, medical imaging, or optical coherence tomography. In recent decades there has been increasing interest in developing novel optical fibers to support multiple functionalities, such as those mentioned above. More recently, the inclusion of the space dimension in optical fiber technologies to increase the transmission capacity per fiber has opened the way to the development of new optical fibers and optical fiber devices to enable these signal processing functionalities.
This Special Issue invites manuscripts that introduce recent advances in “Optical Fiber Devices: Technologies and Applications”. All theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers are accepted. Topics include, but are not limited to, optical fiber communications, sensing, and signal processing exploiting:
- Microwave and teraherz photonics;
- Fiber sensing;
- Specialty optical fibers for communications and signal processing;
- Space division multiplexed fibers;
- Fiber Bragg gratings;
- Optical coherence tomography;
- Nonlinear optical fibers.
Dr. Sergi García
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- optical fiber communications
- signal processing
- microwave photonics
- optical fiber devices
- fiber sensing
- specialty optical fibers
- optical coherence tomography
- fiber Bragg gratings
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