This work considers the issue of creating and promoting student communities focused on attracting young people to modern scientific work and development, in particular in the field of photonics and fiber optics. The materials of the article are based on the experience of implementing the project "Student Community of Photonics and Fiber Optics" and are devoted to management issues in the context of a well-established hierarchical approach to management in classical universities. In the course of the work, tasks were set and ways to solve them were described. Particularly important aspects of the influence on the future career guidance and career aspirations of the youth groups under consideration are reflected.
This work presents fast and simple method for estimation of the insertion loss at the connection of two singlemode optical fibers with contaminated fiber optic connector ferrule end faces. Proposed solution is based on the fundamental mode coupling coefficient (or e.g. transmission coefficient) evaluation via discretized mode field overlap integral. It is represented in the form of nested sums on radial mode field distributions, which are described well by Gaussian function under weakly guiding approximation or may be taken from the mode field distribution matrix, computed by rigorous numerical methods during analysis of real optical fiber samples with nonsymmetrical geometry. Proposed approach provides ability of taking into account the mode field distortions, occurring due to end face contaminations, by directly overlapping of connector ferrule end face image over discretized mode field radial distribution. We present some results of developed method approbation on really measured fiber optic connections between standard singlemode optical fibers with various order contaminated ferrules.
This work presents an alternative method implemented in software procedure for automated localization of fiber optic connector contaminated ferrule end face image artifacts. Here the main problem is concerned with detection and removing the aureoles of core/cladding and cladding/ferrule boundaries without impact on pixels of contamination particles. We considered typical end face images measured by commercially available fiber optic video probe kit containing video microscope and software, which provides ferrule end-face quality inspection "PASS/FAIL" according to ratified standard IEC 61300-3-35 that is a global common set of quality requirements for the surface of ferrule fiber optic connectors. After removing artifacts, modified image may be utilized for the following estimation of the predicted value of insertion loss. We also present some results of proposed procedure approbation for various order contaminated ferrule end face images.
This work presents some results of experimental approbation of method for writing of cascaded precision microstructured defects, like "tapers" and "up-tapers", in various configurations and sequences in silica multimode graded index optical fibers by commercially available field fusion splicer with modified software settings. Here we utilized earlier on developed technique for micro-defect geometry parameters estimation via analysis of photo-image, performed after defect writing and displayed on fusion splicer screen, to estimate the least available distance between couples of the “up-tapers” and “tapers” without optical fiber structure deformation. Also, some results of insertion loss measurements for various configuration of 3-element cascaded microstrucured defects are presented.
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