The association of web technology with instrument automation and control has made possible the development of the so called Remote Laboratories or WebLabs – distributed environments that allow to access and control experiments remotely through the Internet – extending the interactivity in virtual learning environments to higher levels. In this work we describe the main characteristics of a WebLab developed for the remote measurement of an optical fiber’s attenuation coefficient, which is part of an ongoing project whose goal is to implement a photonics remote laboratory aimed to support activities in face-to-face and online courses on optical communications. Preliminary tests on the overall performance of the system have shown very promising results, strongly indicating its potential as a sound and reliable tool for photonics education.
We present a simulation of a 16 channels coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) system operating at 2.5 Gbit/s transmitted over 65 Km of standard fiber. The channel space was optimized in order to improve the use of the operation spectrum and to avoid the water peak. The results demonstrate the feasibility of 40 Gbit/s total capacity CWDM system operation using the S, C and L bands with bit error rate (BER) better than 10-9.
We characterized an analog Self Electro-optic Effect Device (SEED) as an edge detector using the criteria of J. Canny, maximizing signal-to-noise ratio and minimizing spurious response. And also rotation invariance that is a criterion used in many edge detector algorithms. The analog SEED is a GaAs qantum well opto-electronic device that integrates detection and modulation in a unique image processor.
Photo refractive multiple quantum wells (MQW) have become important for the realization of fast and two-dimensional analog optical image-processing devices. They have several interesting characteristics which make them desirable from system point of view. In this new technique the image processing can be performed in spatial domain and real time. For this purpose we used MQW diodes as detector/modulator that spatially arranged as pixels, then the input and output of the processor are in optical form. The input is a non-coherent, colored image, un-polarized and the output is a pixelated, coherent, gray scale image.
We characterized an analog self-electrooptic effect device as an edge detector. The device consists of five input conventional photodiodes in series and a pair of quantum well modulators. In previous work, we demonstrated that this device was able to measure 2D spatial second order differentiation of an image. Here we demonstrated that this layout of photodiodes measure only images with spatial intensity profile at least quadratic.
A modified Imacon type streak camera with temporal resolution of 1.5 psec was used for the measurement of pulses generated by a mode locked Er fiber laser operating at 1.55 micron wavelength. The specially developed S1-PV001 image tube had an initial sensitivity of 26 mu A/W at 1.3 micron. To improve the signal to noise ratio for recording low level CW laser radiation additional shutter circuitry was added to the Imacon camera electronics. The camera was operated at 15 Hz repetition rate, triggered by a sample of the RF signal used for driving the acoustooptic mode locker. A very sensitive and simple recording system was used for recording the time dispersed pictures generated in the ICT output screen using a high gain PMT and a 150 micron slit mounted on a translation stage. The signal from the PMT was read with a box car averager and sent to a PC type computer which controlled the translation stage. The acoustooptically mode locked Er fiber laser can generate pulses of 80 psec in CW operation with a peak power of 0.6 W.
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