Browsing by Author "Taylor, Henry F."
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Lee, Jong-Seo (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)All-fiber multireflector spectral filters which have potential application in optical communications have been investigated experimentally. These multireflector etalons were produced by aligning equal-length fiber sections ...
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Fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer (FFPI) sensor using vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) Lee, Kyung-Woo (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This research represents the first effort to apply vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) to the monitoring of interferometric fiber optic sensors. Modulation of the drive current causes thermal tuning of the ...
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Fang, Shin-Puu (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)A program m able °Pheal-fiber delay gne using optical switches is investigated. The alpfiber optical switch is a MaC^'2 eh n d er interferometer w ith a piezoelectric transducer in each arm, which Pr°duces phase modulation ...
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Taylor, Henry F.; Kao, Ta-Wei; Gardner, James; Gibler, William N.; Atkins, Robert A.; Lee, Chung E.; Swenson, Victor P.; Spears, Matthew; Perez, Robert X. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2001-08-28)A fiber optic fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer diaphragm sensor and method of measurement is provided. A fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer diaphragm sensor (12a, 12b, 12c) includes a base (54a, 54b, 54c) and a diaphragm ...
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Seo, Wanseok (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)A novel type of fiber optic intrusion sensor has been proposed and investigated theoretically and experimentally. The sensor is configured as a coherent optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) with a highly coherent laser ...
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Bae, Taehan (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)A new fiber optic sensing technology for measuring in-cylinder pressure in automotive engines was investigated. The optic sensing element consists of two mirrors in an in-line single mode fiber that are separated by some ...
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Alcoz, Jorge Jose (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)A new type of fiber-optic frequency shifter was studied theoretically and experimentally. It consists of a birefringent optical fiber embedded in an aluminum acoustic waveguide. Light with a wavelength of 1.3 μm enters ...
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Kuo, Hsin-Hui (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)A polarization independent electrooptic add/drop tunable filter fabricated on a LiNbO3 substrate with a narrow -3 dB bandwidth (FWHM) of 1.56 nm operating in the 1.55 μm wavelength regime has been developed to meet the ...
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Anvari, Bahman (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most commonly occurring neoplastic disease in the aging human male. Currently, surgical treatment of BPH is the primary therapeutic method. However, due to surgical complications, ...
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Taylor, Henry F.; Atkins, Robert A.; Gibler, William N.; Lee, Chung-Eun; Mccoy, James J.; Spears, Matthew O.; Oakland, Mark D.; Swenson, Victor P.; Beshouri, Gregory M. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995-09-19)A method and apparatus is provided for measuring pressure in a pressure containing vessel with a non-intrusive, metal-embedded fiber optic pressure sensor. The pressure containing vessel may, for example, be the combustion ...
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Taylor, Henry F.; Atkins, Robert A.; Lee, Chung-Eun; Gardner, James H.; Gibler, William N.; Spears, Matthew O.; Mccoy, James J.; Oakland, Mark D.; Swenson, Victor P. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1998-02-03)A method and apparatus are provided for measuring pressure in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is provided with a non-intrusive, metal-embedded fiber optic pressure sensor. A Fabry-Perot Interferometer ...
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Taylor, Henry F. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990-05-08)A method for producing reflectors in a continuous length of optical fiber is disclosed. The present process includes the steps of preparing the ends of two or more optical fibers, placing one or more of these fibers in a ...
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Taylor, Henry F. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989-07-18)A method for producing reflectors in a continuous length of optical fiber is disclosed. The present process includes the steps of preparing the ends of two or more optical fibers, placing one or more of these fibers in a ...
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Taylor, Henry F. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990-01-09)A method for producing reflectors in a continuous length of optical fiber is disclosed. The present process includes the steps of preparing the ends of two or more optical fibers, placing one or more of these fibers in a ...
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Scher, Aaron David (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)In this thesis, two separate research topics are undertaken both in the general area of compact RF/microwave circuit design. The first topic involves characterizing the parasitic effects and error due to unused post-production ...
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Kwark, Bongsin (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)A new type of photodetector, traveling wave photodetector (TWPD), was designed, fabricated, and tested. In a traveling wave photodetector structure the incident light interacts continuously with the optically generated ...
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Sadkowski, Roberto (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This dissertation presents the design and implementation of a novel mixed-signal processing method for recovering the pressure information obtained from a fiber optic Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor. The sensor is ...
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Deng, Zhijie (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Optics has the inherent advantages of parallelism and wide bandwidths in processing information. However, the need to interface with electronics creates a bottleneck that eliminates many of these advantages. The proposed ...
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Lee, Joo Hyeong (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)A novel digital signal processing algorithm using a pulse-modulated, fiber-optic Fabry-Perot sensor system with temperature as the measurand is devised and implemented. Measurement of change in temperature makes use of the ...
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Liveris, Angelos Dimitriou (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This dissertation considers three different aspects of modern digital communication systems and is therefore divided in three parts. The first part is distributed coding. This part deals with source and source- channel ...