Title :
Femtophotography application for detection of microbends in step index fiber
Author :
Patel, Surabhi ; Shah, Romil P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Nirma Univ., Ahmedabad, India
Abstract :
This paper presents an idea about detection of microbends in optical fiber using Femtophotography. Femtophotography is a technology, which deals with high speed photography up to 1,000,000,000,000 frames per seconds. When light collides with microbend, it gets scattered. Microbends can be detected by measuring the scattering of photons. The scattering of meridional rays, which propagates in core only, has been discussed. Also, equations are proposed for the detection of position of microbend present in step index fiber.
Keywords :
bending; high-speed optical techniques; light scattering; optical fibre testing; ray tracing; femtophotography application; high speed photography; light-microbend collision; meridional ray scattering; microbend detection; optical fiber; photon scattering measurement; step index fiber; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Photonics; Scattering; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics; femtophotography; meridional rays; microbend; scattering;
Conference_Titel :
India Conference (INDICON), 2013 Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
Mumbai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2274-1
DOI :
10.1109/INDCON.2013.6725872
