A test method was developed to find the ideal optical material that supports the chemical reaction of some fuels. Optical plastics and resin were submerged for long periods of time in reservoirs of ethanol, gasoline, Diesel and biodiesel. The dimensional change and weight change of the submerged samples was measured. A special resin successfully supported the chemical attack of fuels. Samples of acrylic polymer and polycarbonate were used as type of optical plastic.
This study aims to build a prototype of a new device for measuring by optics, the level of liquids or liquefied gases in tanks without the use of moving parts for general applications, stationary or not, industrial and chemical vehicles. There are a lot of optical devices for measuring liquid level and various settings and runs, some devices with buildings and sophisticated technologies, complicated and more simple, but none of these devices has the configuration (provision and operation), for measuring by optical means, the level of liquids in tanks and reservoirs. That is a simple, efficient and cost effective device.
In this work we show results of controlled tapered fibers using a Vytran instrument. The tapered silica
fibers were produced by pulling a 50μm length by heating time. The minimum taper diameter was around 3μm and
the maximum taper length was around 600μm. The evanescent field effect, in the near infra red (NIR) region, was
observed to the tapers with diameter inferior to 15μm. These
micro-size tapers no modify the waveguide dispersion
spectra. This device could be used to splice a conventional fiber to photonic crystal fibers and also as liquid and gas
sensors In this work is reported a fiber optic sensor in the form of taper using the concept of the evanescent field. We
show the sensor sensitivity using different liquid materials.
In this work, we present results of broadband emissions ranging from 800 to 1500 nm
generated by using Photonic Crystal Fibres (PCFs) made from borosilicate glasses. The borosilicate
PCFs, fabricated by the Stack-and-Draw technique, consist of five hollow ring periods around the solid
core. The solid core is based on the lead-doped borosilicate glass. The PCFs with their external
diameters ranging from about 3.8 to 6 microns were excited with a commercial pulsed diode laser
(wavelength at 1065 nm, Power <100mW). The PCF length used to generate broadband emissions was
less than a meter. The Optical Attenuation of these PCFs was measured via the Cut-Back method and
their Dispersion Spectra were calculated by using the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the scanning
electronic microscope images. Finally, we believe that short borosilicate PCFs with lead-doped cores
(related to high non-linear properties) may be used in broadband emissions, supercontinuum
generations or other non-linear applications.
The fabrication of small-core photonic crystal fibers and preliminary supercontinuum generation
characterization are reported. In such non-linear experiments fs pulses from a Ti:Sapphire laser were coupled in
the fiber core and the generated spectra recorded.
In this work, we report results of lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dots (QDs) luminescence spectra evolution during
the QDs spread process around the core of silica microstructured optical fibers (MOFs). These QDs are excited,
via evanescent field effect, with a 532nm or 785nm laser guided by the MOF cores. The PbS-core QDs of
different sizes (originally immersed in Toluene) with emission bands around 877 nm (PbS877), 1160 nm
(PbS1160) and 1474 nm (PbS1474) were inserted inside the silica MOF structure by using an N2 gas pressure
system. The broadband luminescence spectra varying from around 1000 nm to 1600 nm were obtained by using
QDs mixtures spread around MOF core surfaces. This QDs spread technique and the PbS QDs broadband
luminescence spectra results could have potential applications in optical amplifier,sensor and nonlinear optical
fiber loop mirror devices.
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