Since the invention and further development of lasers in the 1960s, photonics has grown
into a field that permeates virtually every aspect of modern life. As photonics deals with the …

Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

Bombardment of materials by high-energy particles often leads to light emission in a process
known as scintillation. Scintillation has widespread applications in medical imaging, x-ray …

Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are point optical fiber sensors that allow the monitoring of a
diversity of environmental parameters, eg, temperature or strain. Several research groups …

Optical fibers are being widely utilized as radiation sensors and dosimeters. Benefiting from
the rapidly growing optical fiber manufacturing and material engineering, advanced optical …

This paper presents a comprehensive review of optical fiber sensors (OFSs), including FBG,
distributed optical fiber sensor and Fabry-Perot interferometer, and their applications within …

Simple Summary We investigated the influence of modifying the voltage of an X-ray tube,
and therefore its photon energy spectrum, on the Total Ionizing Dose deposited in a single …

This paper compares the impact of gamma irradiation on various optical fibers, where the
evolution in their optical properties could be identified using long period gratings (LPG) …

We experimentally demonstrate a previously unforeseen nonlinear effect in optical fibers: up-
conversion luminescence generation excited by multiphoton absorption of femtosecond …