Conclusion and outlook

Optical fiber based components

Figure 1 - Optical fiber diagram

Figure 2 - Multimode fiber with index hopping

Figure 3 - Representation of B (V )

Figure 4 - Pulse widening

Figure 5 - Communication line diagram

Figure 6 - Microlens and tap

Figure 7 - X-coupler

Figure 8 - Delay line, resonator and mirror

Figure 9 - Mach-Zehnder fiber interferometer

Figure 10 - Polarization-maintaining fibers

Figure 11 - Curvature birefringence

Figure 12 - Polarizing fiber

Figure 13 - Bragg grating

Figure 14 - Bragg gratings

Figure 15 - Bragg gratings

Figure 16 - Spectral transmission of a Bragg grating

Figure 17 - Diagram of a wavelength add/drop device

Figure 18 - Illustration of dispersion compensation using a Bragg grating

Figure 19 - Example of wavelength multiplexing

Figure 20 - Different Bragg grating multiplexer configurations

Figure 22 - Raman amplification in a fiber link

Figure 23 - Brillouin amplifier

Figure 24 - Erbium energy diagram

Figure 25 - Principle of a doped-fiber amplifier

Figure 26 - Different uses for an amplifier

Figure 27 - Amplification in a delay line

Figure 28 - Fiber laser principle

Figure 29 - Microstructured fibers (photos supplied by the XLIM UMR CNRS 6172 laboratory in Limoges)