Novel optical fibers in life sciences

• Describe the main optical materials for the fabrication of infrared and polymer fibers.
• Describe the main fiber fabrication approaches based on stack-and-draw method, extrusion, rod-in-tube, etc.
• Explain the main properties, advantages and limitations of chalcogenide glasses and polymer materials for optical fiber production..
• Fabrication of canes/fibers using the draw tower
• Describe the sensing mechanism in Optical Fiber Bragg Grating sensors and design a fiber sensor with Bragg resonance at visible and near-infrared region.
• Fabrication of Bragg grating in polymer optical fiber.
• Connectrorization of polymer optical fibres for real world sensing applications.
• Characterize the sensing performance of polymer optical Fiber Bragg Grating sensor.
• Explain the physics of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (OCT).
• Explain the utility of OCT in the context of skin cancer diagnosis.
• Demonstrate 3D in-depth visualization of her/his own skin using a state-of-the-art OCT system and student-tailored software.

Chalcogenide glasses and polymer materials, design of novel optical fibers, fabrication techniques of state-of-the-art fiber structures, Fiber Bragg Grating sensors and devices, Optical Coherence Tomography

34052/34430

Lectures and exercises

Minimum: 5.

Please be aware that this course will only be held if the required minimum number of participants is met. You will be informed 8 days before the start of the course, whether the course will be held.