A distributed optical fiber bi-directional strain-displacement sensor

Abstract A distributed optical fiber strain-displacement sensor is developed, which consists of an optical fiber gauge of strain-dis-placement and an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR). The operational principle is the modulation of fiber loss in OTDR, i. e. thestrain and displacement in monitoring position are obtained from the bending loss of optical fiber bonded on the optical fiber gauge of strain-displacement. After examining the strain and displacement in the cantilever and the micro displacement rack respectively, the result indi-cates that the distributed optical fiber gauge of strain-displacement can monitor strains or displacements in different sensitive lengths. Thekey technique for measuring bi-directional strain-displacement is the pretreatment of bending of the freely suspended optical fibers, whichcan be identified with OTDR by inserting time delay optical fiber.     

Optical Fiber Grating Sensor for Force Measurement of Anchor Cable

The development of the sensor suitable for measuring large load stress to the anchor cable becomes an important task in bridge construction and maintenance. Therefore, a new type of optical fiber sensor was developed in the laboratory - optical fiber grating sensor for force measurement of anchor cable （OFBFMAC）. No similar report about this kind of sensor has been found up to now in China and other countries. This sensor is proved to be an effective way of monitoring in processes of anchor cable installation, cable cutting, cable force regulation, etc, with the accurate and repeatable measuring results. Its successful application in the tie bar cable force safety monitoring for Wuhan Qingchuan bridge is a new exploration of optical fiber grating sensing technology in bridge tie bar monitoring system.     

Large delay tunable slow-light based on high-gain stimulated-Brillouin-scattering amplification in optical fibers

Tunable stimulated-Brillouin-scattering （SBS）-based slow-light in optical fibers has potential applications in optical buffering in the future all-optical router commutation systems. However, due to the low SBS threshold and relatively high realistic signal power, the gain in the usual SBS systems is limited at -30 dB. This paper presents a high-gain SBS scheme to realize large delay slow-light, which benefits from avoiding the depletion of the pump power in a short fiber as SBS media. The experiment demonstrates that, up to 50 dB non-saturated gain has been observed in the single-stage 591.8 m fiber SBS amplification. The slow-light delay can be obtained 52 ns, and the fractional delay can exceed 1.     

Analysis of stimulated Brillouin scattering in multi-mode fiber by numerical solution

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers is described by a theoretical model and numerical analysis. The results showed that, for an optical fiber pumped by a laser beam with ns-order-pulse width and kW-order peak-power, SBS reflectivity tends to saturate when the fiber length exceeds a limit, named “effective fiber length“. Using small core-diameter and long enough fiber, the SBS reflectivity level could be raised but is limited by optical damage of the entrance surface of the fiber. Therefore, just a small dynamic range can be obtained.     

Wet Permeability and Moisture Vapor Transmission Characteristics of Soybean Knitted Fabrics

Wet permeability of fibrous assembly is mainly influenced by the properties of liquid and the configurations of the fiber which consist of diameter of fiber, twist angle and fiber alignment in a yarn. It can be seen from experimental results that the knitted fabric made of soybean (SB) fiber has good properties both in wet permeability and vapor transmission so that the knitting technology and fabric characteristics can be improved.     

Application of Rare Earth Spin Finishes Chloride on PET/PA Composite Super-fine Denier Fiber

The primariy application of rare - earth spin finishes on PET/PA composite super - fine denier fiber has been studied in this paper. It results in the improvement of fi-ber's properties, such as increased whiteness, brightness and brilliance, effective and uniform spliting of compos-ite fiber into super - fine denier fiber and enhanced dye-ing effect.     

Efficient Method to Achieve Enhanced Thermal Dimensional Stability and Desired Dimensions of Hollow Polyester Fiber

This study has developed an efficient method to achieve excellent thermal dimensional stability and desired dimensions of hollow polyester fiber. Firstly,the influence of thermal treatment temperate( 140-180 ℃) on the degree of shrinkage of fiber was investigated. The influence was also analyzed with a 2nd heating to simulate the application situation. It was discovered that the heat treatment at a temperature which was above the application temperature( 2nd heating) would efficiently remove the internal stress in the fiber and improve the thermal dimensional stability.Secondly,the impact of heat treatment temperature on the fiber diameter and the degree of hollowness were studied. The results implied that with a fixed fiber length, higher treatment temperature led to thinner fiber and a lower degree of hollowness.Last but not least,key parameters that could further influence the fiber dimensions were investigated. The results suggested that the fiber diameters and the degree of hollowness could be further controlled by tuning the drawing speed,the spinning meter pump output and cooling status while the spinneret parameters were fixed.     

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR OF UHMW-PAN SOLUTION

UHMW-PAN is an important polymer material used to make high strength and high modules fiber as well as hollow fiber membrane with high mechanical strength to resist the backwash process.In this paper, the effect of temperature on non-Newtonian flow index, structural viscosity index,maximum relaxation time and zero shear viscosity of the UHMW-PAN solution has been studied.The relationship between parameters and spinnability has been discussed. On the basis of above works, the suitable temperature of spinning solution by gel-spinning has been found.     

Rapid Measurement of Short Fiber Content on Hertel Sample

This paper offers a new method of measuring short fiber content of cotton fibers. The method is composed of two parts： one is Hertel sampling and the other is image testing. With the help of fiber mixer, a thin and even cotton net is obtained on which we can get Hertel sample by using a sliver clamp. The near micro optical mechanism consists of one large area CCD and one lens with long focus. This mechanism is able to measure every cotton fiber of the test beard accurately and makes it possible to measure accumulating fibers＇ amounts. On this base we can calculate short fiber content of cotton, and the experiment results show that this method is efficient.     

Study of an athermal infrared dual band optical system design containing harmonic diffractive element

Infrared radiation has three main atmospheric win-dows, consisting of near infrared (0.75—2.5 mm)mid-wave infrared (3.2—4.5 mm) and thermal infraredband (8—14 mm). Most infrared optical systems are single band, which causes many insufficiencies in obtaininginformation. So a dual band imaging optical system has been brought forward by some investigators in order to enhance self-survival and detect targets-enemy[1]. An in-frared optical system with dual bands has great superiority in obtainin…     

基于液芯光纤和CCD的分光光度法测定河水中的Cr(VI)

A convenient and sensitive spectrometric system based on a liquid core optical fiber and a charge coupled device was constructed for the determination of chromium(VI) in river water.Diphenylcarbazide was added to Cr(VI) solution to form colored complex in the medium of perchloric acid.With a 35 cm long Teflon optical fiber,the limit of detection(LOD) was 0.4 μg·L~(-1),ten times lower than that of Chinese National Standard Procedure(GB7467-87).The method was applied to determine Cr(VI) in river water without...     

Comparison of the effect of hydrogen incorporation and oxygen vacancies on the properties of anatase TiO2: electronics,optical absorption,and interaction with water

Hydrogenation has been recently developed as an approach to improve the visible-light response of titanium dioxide （TiO2）; however, the effect of hydrogenation on the electronics and optical absorption of anatase TiO2 has been widely debated. In this work, the electronic structures and optical properties of hydrogenated TiO2 and its interaction with water have been studied using the density functional theory plus Hubbard model. A comparison of the effect of hydrogenation and introduction of oxygen vacancies （OVs） to TiO2 is presented. It is found that both hydrogenation and OVs can promote the absorption of visible light and strengthen the adsorption of water. Compared with OVs, hydrogen incorporation can lead to local distortion and even amorphous structures when it is heavily doped.     

Transmission and demodulation of multi-polarization-multiplexed signals

We propose the configuration of signal multi- plexing with four polarization states and investigate its transmission performance over single-mode fiber links. Using coherent detection and digital signal processing, a demodulation scheme for four-polarization-multiplexed （4PM） system is presented. We discuss the impact of crosstalk from polarization mode dispersion and polarization beam splitter misalignment on the proposed 4PM system. Furthermore, the transmission distance could be doubled to -50 km by employing feedback decision equalizers.     

Fiber nonlinearity mitigation by improved zero-interpolation method in coherent optical OFDM systems

An improved zero-interpolation method with signal clipping to improve fiber nonlinearity tolerance in the long-haul coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system (CO-OFDM) is presented. The new technique is implemented by interpolating zero subcarriers and selecting the odd subcarriers to carry data and clipping conventional CO-OFDM signal at zero. With such a scheme,the effect of fiber nonlinearity can be miti-gated,and the wanted signal carried on odd subcarriers is or-thogonal to clipping noise,which falls on even frequencies. Simu-lation shows that the system Q value is improved by more than 2 dB at the length of 960 km     

Preface

In the past decades, the ability of observing and manipulating quantum phenomena has been tremendously improved. It has advanced the thriving of quantum technologies with atomic, optical and solid-state systems.     

ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN FACTORS AFFECTING SECONDARY FIBER DEINKING

1.INTRDUCTIONChina is a country which lack of abundant wood material for papermaing,the nonwood fiber has been the main material in many pulping and papermaking factories in China. Presently, because of environmental and economic reasons, the nonwood fiber pulping especially wheat straw and rice straw pulping have been restricted in some area, and the nonwood pulping is face to a atrophy situation gradually in some area in China. Waste paper is a important secondary fiber material for Chi…     

Spatial separation of spectrum inside the tapered metamaterial optical waveguide

In this work,the optical metamaterials based on silver dendritic cells are prepared by electrochemical deposition,and its transmission and focusing behaviors are investigated.The experimental results show that the optical metamaterials reveal a multiple pass-band transmission spectrum and a prominent focusing effect at the wavelength corresponding to the maximum transmission coefficient.Two optical metamaterial samples are combined into a tapered optical waveguide,and the spectra of transmitted light at the surface of the tapered optical waveguide is measured by using the fiber spectrometer along the light propagation direction.The results demonstrate that each frequency component of the wave packet is stopped at a different waveguide thickness,leading to the spatial separation of its spectrum.The spatial separation of spectrum can be effectively tuned by adjusting the inclination of the tapered optical waveguide,which can be used for storing photons and slow-light research.     

REDUCING FIBER LOSS IN LABORATORY-AND MILL-SCALE FLOTATION DEINKING USING SURFACTANT SPRAY TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTIONDuring the past few years, the use of recycled fiber has increased dramatically due to the shortage of fiber resources and restrictive environmental regulations on paper landfills. Since the successful application of flotation in the paper recycling industry from the minerals industry in 1980s, flotation deinking has become a necessary process for ink removal from wastepaper in many paper recycling mills. The deinking chemistry and the physicochemical interactions among air bub…     

A High Efficiency Wavelength Conversion Scheme Based on Four Wave Minxing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

A new approach of all optical wavelength converter based on four wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with the conjugate wave reflected by a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and then amplified by the SOA is reported. By adjusting the pump power, the conversion efficiency could be improved 7～10dB with signal-to-background-noise-ratio (SBR) deteriorated 1～2dB, compared with traditional single pump four wave mixing.     

Nonlinear optical properties of graphene-based materials

Graphene,a two-dimensional carbon atom sheet,has attracted tremendous attention and research interest because of its exceptional physical properties.Graphene has high mobility and optical transparency,in addition to flexibility,robustness and environmental stability.The main focus so far has been on fundamental physics and electronic devices.However,because the linear dispersion of the Dirac electrons enables ultrawideband tunability,we believe its true potential lies in photonics and optoelectronics.In this review,we introduce recent advances in the nonlinear optical properties of graphene-based materials.The rise of graphene in nonlinear optics is shown by several recent results,ranging from saturable absorbers and the four-wave mixing effect to giant two-photon absorption,reverse saturable absorption and optical limiting.The relevant forms of the graphene-based materials include pure graphene,graphene oxide and graphene hybrids.