Fiber and their applications
Different types of optical fiber and their applications are presented at a glance in this section.
Application
Application | Optical Fiber |
Telecommunication | Multimode fiber (MMF) |
Single-mode fiber (SMF) | |
Dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) | |
Polarisation maintaining fiber (PMF) | |
Mid infrared fiber | |
Ge doped fiber for Bragg grating filting | |
Plastic optical fibers | |
Multicore fiber | |
Supercontinuum sources | Photonic crystal fiber (PCF) |
Nonlinear material filled fiber | |
Micro structured optical fiber (MOF) | |
Chalcogenide step index fiber | |
Sensing application | Multimode fiber |
Solid core photonic crystal fiber (SCPCF) | |
Hollow core photonic crystal fiber (HCPCF) | |
Polarisation maintaining fiber (PM) | |
Ge doped fiber for Bragg grating sensor | |
D-shaped fiber | |
Bare fiber | |
No core fiber | |
Fiber laser | Erbium doped fiber (EDF) |
Rare-earth-doped optical fiber | |
Double clad fiber | |
Fiber amplifier | Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) |
Ytterbium doped amplifier fiber | |
Erbium-ytterbium doped fiber | |
Double clad fiber | |