A broadband optical rotary joint (BORJ) was designed using Clenses. Its insertion loss was less than 2dB at both the 1300nm and 1550nm wavelength windows. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technique was adopted to increase the number of data transmission channels. Hundreds of wavelength channels can be accommodated for data transmission through relatively rotating interfaces using this BORJ. The total data transmission rate through this BORJ can be more than 200Gbit/s. By using Dove prism, both space division multiplexing (SDM) and WDM techniques can be implemented simultaneously in the design of BORJ with C-lenses. This structure of BORJ has a low cost. It can be used for optical data transmission and optical sensing.

This paper descrities the dual layer scalable optical interconnentcion nitwork being developed at Tianjin University. The layer of the network is a multiwavelength bidirectional optical bus. Which has large bandwidth and low latency, The bus is made up of passive components. No wavelength-tunable devices are used As a result, the bus ponents. No wavelength-tunable devices are used As a result, the bus has a low communication latency that is mainly determined by the optical fiber length. The optical fiber length. The sublayer of the network is a single-wavelength ring, which has low communication latency and high scalability. In each ring. a wavelength routing node is designed for data transmission between the ring and the optical bus. Each node computer is connected to the ring throuth an optical network interface card. The communication latency inside the ring is decreased by using synchronous pipelining transmission.

The nmnerieal aperurc (NA3 of the double beam thterferometers (DBD can affect the acotrate measurement of surface profiles. Based on the double beam interference microscope imaging theory, the fringe spacing will vary wide nonlinearly with the increasing of numerical aperture. The double beam interferometers require oblique incidence illmnination, including Miehelson, Mirth and Linnik lypes. The intensity distribution of the ilumination across its slop is constant so the correction factor depends mainly on the NA in the Michelson and Linnik interferometers. The correction factor expression is derived in the Miehelson interferometer. The reference surface is a central obscnration in the beam, which will reduec the effective mnnerical aperture in the Miran interferometer. At the same mumerical aperatre, larger central obscuration has a much effect on the correction factor. The correction factor expression is determined by considering the influence of central obseuration and oblique incidence in the Mirau interferometer.

This paper presented an optical intercormection multiple PC system connected by a ring network. This multiple PC system uses Linux Operating system, and the standard communication protocol of complying with Ethemet specification This paper studied the factors that influence the intereomection performance among multiple computers, including the effect of the buffer size of OLI on the bandwidth of network layer, and the effect of retransmission method on the performance. The results of ping-pong test show that optical fiber link is able to provide high-bandwidth and low-latency communication for a multi-PCs system. We found that the performance of the interoonneetion network can be improved by improving the interface match between the optical fiber link and computer bus input/oatput. Besides, the development of a chip to implement network interface and a part of network protocol, such as developing with FPGA device in this paper, could result in the higher performance of the interconnection.

In this paper, white light interferometry has been used to measure the distributed polarization coupling in high birefringence fibres. Detailed theoretical analysis of the measurement accuracy of the testing system is presented. The main part is a Michelson interferometer with a scanning arm driven by a stepping motor. The minimum polarization coupling intensity detectable by this system is -77dB. The maximum fibre length that can be tested under this design is more than 1km, and the spatial resolution is better than 50mm. The influence of the opto-electro-mechanical devices on measurement accuracy has been analysed in order to improve the performance-to-cost ratio. This testing system can also be used in coherence division multiplexing optical fibre sensors.