What is optical fiber?

The optical fiber or fiber optic(Waveguide) now is the heart of modern society, it is typically used this device as a background of global communication. The first demonstrations of light guidance within an optical fiber took place in the early 1960’s, and have been continually developing the performance of this device to provide more transmission capacity and reduce the transmission loss etc.

Is the fiber only design for the visible regime?

No, there are a lot of optical fibers that design for other range. For example, the communication fiber is designed in an infrared regime. The fiber that designs for education purposes, health care, or security purposes can be design in the terahertz regime.

How many types of optical fiber?

Nowadays, researchers have developed a lot of optical fiber types depend on the characterized fiber. They can be separated into two main types (solid core, hollow core) if focus on the core of the fiber. Not only considered at the core of the fiber but also can consider at the confinement mechanism, which can separate into many types. For example, commercial fiber (total internal refraction), photonic crystal fiber, anti-resonant fiber.

What is the AORG’s research scope in optical fiber?

In our research group, we can support you in the field you like due to your interested topic. We can create and analyze the model of the fiber by using the computer simulation based on the numerical study. For the applications purposes, we have a lot of scientific facilities to support your experiment. If you want to fabricate the fiber we have an international collaborator that can advise and support you.

HOW DO I KNOW MORE ABOUT IT?

These are the lists of books and suggested research that would be suitable to one who want to start understand the optical fiber more

  • Optoelectronics & Photonics 2nd Edition, S.O.Kasap
  • Optics 4th Edition, Eugene Hecht
  • Review of the present status of optical fiber sensors, Optical fiber technology, B Lee, 2003
  • Optical fibre long-period grating sensors: characteristics and application, S W James and R P Tatam, Measurement Science and Technology, 2003