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Fiber Optic Cables

Known as: Optical Fiber, Cable, Fiber Optic, Optic Cable, Fiber 
Thin strands of transparent material, usually glass, that are used for transmitting light waves over long distances.
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Tunable all-optical delays via Brillouin slow light in an optical fiber
We have demonstrated that stimulated Brillouin scattering can be used to generate all-optical slow-light pulse delays of greater… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Observation of pulse delaying and advancement in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering.
We demonstrate experimentally that it is possible to control optically the group velocity of an optical pulse as it travels along… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Coherence properties of supercontinuum spectra generated in photonic crystal and tapered optical fibers.
Numerical simulations have been used in studies of the temporal and spectral features of supercontinuum generation in photonic… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Fluorescence, reflectance, and light-scattering spectroscopy for evaluating dysplasia in patients with Barrett's esophagus.
BACKGROUND & AIMS The aim of this study was to assess the potential of 3 spectroscopic techniques (fluorescence, reflectance, and… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Cherenkov radiation emitted by solitons in optical fibers.
We demonstrate a simple, fully analytic method of calculating the amount of radiation emitted by optical solitons perturbed by… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Theory of the soliton self-frequency shift.
Raman effects cause a continuous downshift of the mean frequency of pulses propagating in optical fibers. For solitons in silica… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Random walk of coherently amplified solitons in optical fiber transmission.
In an optical-communications system using soliton pulse transmission, periodic amplification is needed to maintain the energy of… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
A Monte Carlo model for the absorption and flux distributions of light in tissue.
A Monte Carlo computer model has been developed to study the propagation of light in tissues. Light attenuation is assumed to… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Interaction forces among solitons in optical fibers.
The propagation of light pulses as solitons in optical fibers may form the basis of a viable means of communication. We show here… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Light propagation in graded-index optical fibers.
An accurate numerical method is described for solving the Helmholtz equation for a general class of optical fibers. The method… 
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