Hair-thin strands of multimode optical fibre (MMF) can operate as ultra-low footprint endoscopes–delivering sub-cellular resolution images from deep inside the body at the tip of a fine needle. However, images transmitted through MMFs are unrecognisably distorted. Here we present two new ways to unscramble this light and recover images. Firstly, we describe a new in-situ calibration technique requiring access to only the input end of the fibre–promising a way to image through flexible fibres. Secondly, we describe the design of a new optical element–an ‘optical inverter’–that can unscramble all modes in parallel, offering the potential of single-shot and super-resolution imaging through MMFs.
Optical vortex (OV) beams have received considerable interest in the recent years. For miscellaneous OV-based applications, one important issue is the generation of OV beams. A lot of approaches including both external and intra-cavity methods have been demonstrated. Meanwhile, using fibers for generating OV beams has also attracted more and more attention because of the inherent advantages of fibers, such as compactness, low cost, remote delivery and flexibility. Although, successful generation of OV beams with optical fibers has been demonstrated, one may also see several challenges, like narrow bandwidth, complex structures, and high insertion loss. In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple approach to realize controllable broadband OV generator using optical fibers. The generator consists of a single-mode fiber (SMF) of which the output end is spliced to a two-mode fiber (TMF) with a defined offset, two polarization controllers (PCs) applied on the SMF and TMF, and one polarizer. The polarizer located behind the output end of the TMF is used to filter the non-OV beams. By adjusting the two PCs, one can selectively convert an input fundamental mode to high-purity OV modes within a wide bandwidth (1480 nm ∼1640 nm). The measured extinction ratio of generated OV modes is larger than 20 dB. The proposed simple low-cost broadband fiber-based OV generator may have wide applications in the area such as fiber communications, sensing and imaging.
This paper gives a review for our recent progress on N-fold orbital angular momentum (OAM) multicasting links. By
exploiting optimized complex phase pattern, the data information carried by an input Gaussian mode can be copied and
delivered to multiple OAM modes which are distinguishable from each other owing to their own distinct spiral phase
fronts. Experiment demonstration of 1-to-34 OAM multicasting, adaptive power-controllable OAM multicasting, and
compensation of a distorted OAM multicasting link are presented.
The wrist-pulse is a kind of signals, from which a lot of physiological and pathological status of patients are deduced according to traditional Chinese medicine theories. This paper designs a new optic fiber wrist-pulse sensor that based on a group of FBGs. Sensitivity of the optic fiber wrist-pulse measurement system reaches 0.05% FS and the range reaches 50kPa. Frequency response is from 0 Hz to 5 kHz. A group of typical pulse signal is given out in the paper to compare different status of patient. It will improve quantification of pulse diagnosis greatly.
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