Superluminiscent diode (SLED) lighting principles unveiled

Nowadays, lasers and LEDs are part of the everyday life thanks to the Star Wars lightsabers or the low consumption bulbs, although a … Read the rest

Relative measurements

Insertion loss and return loss or power signal transmitted along a fiber optic link, are generally expressed in dB (decibels) and should always be a positive number. But they can also be negative, which is not good in … Read the rest

Fundamentals of fluorescence measurements

The use of fiber optic sensors based in fluorescence has become a common practice for applications of detection in areas such as analytical chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology, photochemistry, medical diagnostics or biotechnology during last decades [1]… Read the rest

Fiber optic connectors significance

Fiber optic connector technology has evolved during the last decades aided by many technological companies and individuals aimed to obtain the best solution to minimize power loss at lower cost as well as other problems, such … Read the rest

Turn your fiber optic transmission setup to a reflection setup

Optical fiber setups can often be very complicated and hard to be moved from laboratory to real life applications because of bulk measuring equipments or brittle optical fiber configuration.… Read the rest