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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,067 Views
14 Pages

Improvement of Temperature Performance of Singlemode-Multimode-Singlemode Fiber Structure

  • Rongxiang Zhang,
  • Weiyu Wang,
  • Jianfei Zhang,
  • Yuhong Han and
  • Tao Liu

28 October 2022

A theoretical model for studying the temperature properties of singlemode-multimode-singlemode (SMS) fiber structure fabricated by absorptive multimode fiber (MMF) cladding is established. Moreover, an SMS-based temperature sensor is fabricated and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,090 Views
9 Pages

14 October 2014

Magnetic field sensing based on magnetic-fluid-clad multimode-singlemode- multimode fiber structures is proposed and experimentalized. The structures are fabricated out using fiber fusion splicing techniques. The sensing principle is based on the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,223 Views
21 Pages

Pulse wave (PW) measurement is a highly prominent technique, used in biomedical diagnostics. Development of novel PW sensors with increased accuracy and reduced susceptibility to motion artifacts will pave the way to more advanced healthcare technolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,159 Views
16 Pages

20 November 2022

The paper is aimed at improving the efficiency of signal processing for intermode fiber-optic interferometers. To do so, we propose to use the MUSIC algorithm. It is shown that the use of traditional methods for estimating the number of signal compon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,921 Views
28 Pages

VCSELs: Influence of Design on Performance and Data Transmission over Multi-Mode and Single-Mode Fibers

  • Nikolay N. Ledentsov,
  • Nikolay Ledentsov,
  • Vitaly A. Shchukin,
  • Alexander N. Ledentsov,
  • Oleg Yu. Makarov,
  • Ilya E. Titkov,
  • Markus Lindemann,
  • Thomas de Adelsburg Ettmayer,
  • Nils C. Gerhardt and
  • Ming-Jun Li
  • + 4 authors

21 October 2025

Substantial improvements in the performance of optical interconnects based on multi-mode fibers are required to support emerging single-channel data transmission rates of 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s. Future optical components must combine very high modulat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,417 Views
27 Pages

Application of Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Geophysics Exploration: Comparative Review of Single-Mode and Multi-Mode Fiber Optic Cables

  • Muhammad Rafi,
  • Khairul Arifin Mohd Noh,
  • Abdul Halim Abdul Latiff,
  • Daniel Asante Otchere,
  • Bennet Nii Tackie-Otoo,
  • Ahmad Dedi Putra,
  • Zaky Ahmad Riyadi and
  • Dejen Teklu Asfha

26 June 2024

The advent of fiber optic technology in geophysics exploration has grown in its use in the exploration, production, and monitoring of subsurface environments, revolutionizing the way data are gathered and interpreted critically to speed up decision-m...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,651 Views
13 Pages

We demonstrate the use of laser diodes and multijunction photovoltaic power converters to efficiently deliver watts of electrical power for long-distance or cryogenic applications. Transmission through single-mode and multi-mode fibers at the wavelen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,129 Views
12 Pages

16 February 2023

Chromatic dispersion is an important fiber attribute affecting transmission performance over optical fibers. Various chromatic dispersion measurement methods have been developed primarily for single-mode fibers. In the literature, measurement techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,873 Views
11 Pages

Grating couplers are essential components in silicon photonics that facilitate the coupling of light between waveguides and fibers. Optimization of the grating couplers to reach <1 dB loss when coupling to single-mode fibers (SMFs) has been report...

  • Article
  • Open Access
667 Views
15 Pages

10 April 2025

By combining the Fourier series expansion method with the perfect matching layer strategy, this study provides a detailed analysis of symmetric periodic chains consisting of two-dimensional monolayer dielectric cylinders. The numerical and field dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,581 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Full-Frequency Deep-Sea Noise Based on Sea Surface Wind Speed and Real-Time Noise Data

  • Bo Yuan,
  • Licheng Lu,
  • Zhenzhu Wang,
  • Guoli Song,
  • Li Ma and
  • Wenbo Wang

30 December 2024

The prediction of ocean ambient noise is crucial for protecting the marine ecosystem and ensuring communication and navigation safety, especially under extreme weather conditions such as typhoons and strong winds. Ocean ambient noise is primarily cau...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,101 Views
14 Pages

Clock Recovery Challenges in DSP-Based Coherent Single-Mode and Multi-Mode Optical Systems

  • Júlio César Medeiros Diniz,
  • Francesco Da Ros and
  • Darko Zibar

We present an analysis of clock recovery algorithms in both polarization division multiplexing systems and mode division multiplexing systems. The impact of inter-polarization time skew and polarization mode dispersion in single-mode fibers, as well...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,284 Views
14 Pages

Characterization of Chirp Properties of an 850 nm Single-Mode Multi-Aperture Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser and Analysis of Transmission Performance over Multimode and Single-Mode Fibers

  • Xin Chen,
  • Nikolay Ledentsov,
  • Abdullah S. Karar,
  • Jason E. Hurley,
  • Oleg Yu. Makarov,
  • Hao Dong,
  • Ahmad Atieh,
  • Ming-Jun Li and
  • Nikolay Ledentsov

By measuring the transfer function of the single-mode multi-aperture vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (SM MA VCSEL) transmitting over a long single-mode fiber at 850 nm, we confirm that the chirp of the SM MA VCSEL under study is dominated by t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,227 Views
21 Pages

4 May 2021

Top-performing computer vision models are powered by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Training an accurate CNN highly depends on both the raw sensor data and their associated ground truth (GT). Collecting such GT is usually done through human la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,282 Views
15 Pages

Single-Mode Input Fiber Combined with Multimode Sensing Fiber Used in Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry

  • Yongqian Li,
  • Haijun Fan,
  • Lixin Zhang,
  • Zijuan Liu,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Jiaqi Wu and
  • Shaokang Wang

Conventional single-mode fiber (SMF) Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry (BOTDR) suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and severe sensing reliability due to the influence of the stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold and bend loss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,136 Views
11 Pages

11 February 2025

Single-mode (SM) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have often been demonstrated with an unusually long transmission reach at very high data rates while today’s multimode VCSEL transmission has been limited by the fiber modal band...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,377 Views
14 Pages

30 May 2019

A fiber reshaping-based refractive index (RI) sensor is proposed relying on both optical intensity variation and wavelength shift. The objective of this study is to completely reshape the core and to ultimately mimic a coreless fiber, thereby creatin...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
619 Views
7 Pages

The Thermo-Optic Discrimination of an Aqueous Solution Composition Using a Multimodal Interference Fiber Optic Sensor

  • Ruth K. Delgadillo-González,
  • Nailea Mar-Abundis,
  • René F. Domínguez-Cruz,
  • Federico Ampudia-Ramírez,
  • Yadira A. Fuentes-Rubio and
  • José R. Guzmán-Sepúlveda

Fiber optics sensors based on multimodal interference (MMI) have proven effective for refractometry of liquid samples. Here, we extend these capabilities to demonstrate that aqueous solutions with a similar refractive index (RI), which at room temper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,493 Views
11 Pages

In this study, we have investigated the evolution process and dynamic characteristics of a multi-pulse regime in an erbium-doped fiber ring laser based on a single-mode fiber–graded-index multimode fiber–single-mode fiber (SMF-GIMF-SMF) s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,417 Views
12 Pages

31 March 2023

Fiber-optic refractive index (RI) sensors based on wavelength-shift-based interrogation continue to present a challenge in achieving high sensitivity for a wide detection range. In this paper, we propose a sensor for determining the RI of liquids bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
999 Views
16 Pages

Multimodal Deep Learning-Based Classification of Breast Non-Mass Lesions Using Gray Scale and Color Doppler Ultrasound

  • Tianjiao Wang,
  • Qingli Zhu,
  • Tianxiang Yu,
  • Denis Leonov,
  • Xinran Shi,
  • Zhuhuang Zhou,
  • Ke Lv,
  • Mengsu Xiao and
  • Jianchu Li

22 November 2025

Objectives: To propose a multimodal deep learning method for the classification of benign and malignant breast non-mass lesions (NMLs) using grayscale and color Doppler ultrasound and to compare the performance of multi-modality and single-modality b...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,168 Views
4 Pages

Etched and Nanocoated SMS Fiber Sensor for Detection of Salinity Concentration

  • Y. Cardona-Maya,
  • Ignacio Del Villar,
  • Abian Bentor Socorro,
  • Jesus Maria Corres,
  • Francisco Javier Arregui and
  • J. F. Botero-Cadavid

An optical fibre refractometer has been developed by etching and deposition of a thin film of indium tin oxide (ITO) on a single-mode-multimode-single-mode (SMS) fibre structure. The interference between modes in this structure is sensitive to the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,198 Views
12 Pages

Various Types of Light Guides for Use in Lossy Mode Resonance-Based Sensors

  • Dmitriy P. Sudas,
  • Viktor A. Jitov and
  • Petr I. Kuznetsov

30 June 2023

A comparative study of figure-of-merit fiber sensors of the mass concentration of NaCl solutions based on single-mode and multi-mode fibers was carried out. Lossy mode resonance is realized on chemically thinned sections of optical fibers to various...

  • Article
  • Open Access
891 Views
15 Pages

Cladding–Thickness–Dependent Performance of SMS Optical Fiber Sensors

  • Guanzhong Nie,
  • Shengli Pu,
  • Yuzhong Wang and
  • Qingxi Song

27 August 2025

This study presents a detailed investigation of single-mode–multimode–single-mode (SMS) fiber sensors with varied cladding thicknesses of multimode fiber (MMF) (4, 3, 2, 1, and 0 μm). The refractive index (RI) sensing performance of th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,103 Views
17 Pages

Universal Single-Mode Lasing in Fully Chaotic Billiard Lasers

  • Mengyu You,
  • Daisuke Sakakibara,
  • Kota Makino,
  • Yonosuke Morishita,
  • Kazutoshi Matsumura,
  • Yuta Kawashima,
  • Manao Yoshikawa,
  • Mahiro Tonosaki,
  • Kazutaka Kanno and
  • Takahisa Harayama
  • + 3 authors

14 November 2022

By numerical simulations and experiments of fully chaotic billiard lasers, we show that single-mode lasing states are stable, whereas multi-mode lasing states are unstable when the size of the billiard is much larger than the wavelength and the exter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
507 Views
20 Pages

5 December 2025

A compact offset-coupled hybrid fiber interferometer (OCHFI) is designed and experimentally demonstrated for simultaneous measurement of salinity and temperature. The sensor integrates multimode fiber (MMF) and offset no-core fiber (NCF) through an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,173 Views
14 Pages

ZnO Nanorods Coated Single-Mode–Multimode–Single-Mode Optical Fiber Sensor for VOC Biomarker Detection

  • Kankan Swargiary,
  • Prattakorn Metem,
  • Chayapol Kulatumyotin,
  • Suphavit Thaneerat,
  • Noppasin Ajchareeyasoontorn,
  • Pannathorn Jitpratak,
  • Tanujjal Bora,
  • Waleed S. Mohammed,
  • Joydeep Dutta and
  • Charusluk Viphavakit

20 August 2022

This work demonstrated a ZnO-coated optical fiber sensor for the detection of a volatile organic compound (VOC) biomarker for diabetes for detecting isopropanol (IPA) markers. A coreless silica fiber (CSF) was connected to a single-mode fiber (SMF) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,063 Views
14 Pages

9 October 2021

Vigilance estimation of drivers is a hot research field of current traffic safety. Wearable devices can monitor information regarding the driver’s state in real time, which is then analyzed by a data analysis model to provide an estimation of vigilan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,429 Views
18 Pages

Three-Dimensional-Printed Fabrication of POFs Using Different Filaments and Their Characterization for Sensing Applications

  • Robertson Pires-Junior,
  • Leandro Macedo,
  • Anselmo Frizera,
  • Maria José Pontes and
  • Arnaldo Leal-Junior

26 January 2023

This paper presents the development and sensor applications of 3D-printed polymer optical fibers (POFs) using commercially available filaments. The well-known intensity variation sensor was developed using this fiber for temperature and curvature sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,813 Views
13 Pages

Optical Fiber Cladding SPR Sensor Based on Core-Shift Welding Technology

  • Yong Wei,
  • Jiangxi Hu,
  • Ping Wu,
  • Yudong Su,
  • Chunlan Liu,
  • Shifa Wang,
  • Xiangfei Nie and
  • Lu Liu

9 March 2019

The typical structure of an optical fiber surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor, which has been widely investigated, is to produce the SPR phenomenon by the transmission of light in a fiber core. The traditional method is to peel off the fiber cladd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,447 Views
17 Pages

27 October 2019

Ship recognition based on ship-radiated noise is one of the most important and challenging subjects in underwater acoustic signal processing. The recognition methods for ship-radiated noise recognition include traditional methods and deep learning (D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,198 Views
10 Pages

Generation of Narrow Modes in Random Raman Fiber Laser Based on Multimode Fiber

  • Ilya D. Vatnik,
  • Oleg A. Gorbunov and
  • Dmitry V. Churkin

19 December 2023

We present a new design of a random Raman fiber laser based on a graded-index multimode fiber as the media composing the cavity that allows the generation of narrow spectral lines. We carried out spectral measurements using an optical heterodyning te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,244 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Modal Emotion Detection and Tracking System Using AI Techniques

  • Werner Mostert,
  • Anish Kurien and
  • Karim Djouani

16 October 2025

Emotion detection significantly impacts healthcare by enabling personalized patient care and improving treatment outcomes. Single-modality emotion recognition often lacks reliability due to the complexity and subjectivity of human emotions. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,051 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Focus Image Fusion Based on Convolution Neural Network for Parkinson’s Disease Image Classification

  • Yin Dai,
  • Yumeng Song,
  • Weibin Liu,
  • Wenhe Bai,
  • Yifan Gao,
  • Xinyang Dong and
  • Wenbo Lv

17 December 2021

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease that has a significant impact on people’s lives. Early diagnosis is imperative since proper treatment stops the disease’s progression. With the rapid development of CAD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,405 Views
15 Pages

A Spam Filtering Method Based on Multi-Modal Fusion

  • Hong Yang,
  • Qihe Liu,
  • Shijie Zhou and
  • Yang Luo

19 March 2019

In recent years, the single-modal spam filtering systems have had a high detection rate for image spamming or text spamming. To avoid detection based on the single-modal spam filtering systems, spammers inject junk information into the multi-modality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,249 Views
16 Pages

The equality of healthcare services has been a focus among researchers and policymakers. The maximal accessibility equality (MAE) model is a widely used location-allocation model for the optimization of the accessibility equality of facilities. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,661 Views
19 Pages

Deep learning technology has been widely used in brain tumor segmentation with multi-modality magnetic resonance imaging, helping doctors achieve faster and more accurate diagnoses. Previous studies have demonstrated that the weighted fusion segmenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,758 Views
21 Pages

Emotion recognition commonly relies on single-modal recognition methods, such as voice and video signals, which demonstrate a good practicability and universality in some scenarios. Nevertheless, as emotion-recognition application scenarios continue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,219 Views
14 Pages

Impacts of Hydrostatic Pressure on Distributed Temperature-Sensing Optical Fibers for Extreme Ocean and Ice Environments

  • Scott W. Tyler,
  • Matthew E. Silvia,
  • Michael V. Jakuba,
  • Brian M. Durante and
  • Dale P. Winebrenner

Optical fiber is increasingly used for both communication and distributed sensing of temperature and strain in environmental studies. In this work, we demonstrate the viability of unreinforced fiber tethers (bare fiber) for Raman-based distributed te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
582 Views
10 Pages

31 October 2025

Switchable microlasers with multicolor output and high spectral purity are of crucial importance for various photonic devices. However, switchable multicolor lasing usually operates in multimode, which largely restricts its practical applications due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,977 Views
16 Pages

Multimode Wind Tunnel Flow Field System Monitoring Based on KPLS

  • Jin Guo,
  • Ran Zhang,
  • Xiaochun Cui,
  • Weitong Ma and
  • Luping Zhao

6 January 2023

In a wind tunnel process, Mach number is the most important parameter. However, it is difficult to measure directly, especially in the multimode operation process, leading to difficulty in process monitoring. Thus, it is necessary to measure the Mach...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,871 Views
12 Pages

3 February 2023

In this paper, we propose an optical fiber-based broadband mode coupler for multimode optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the O-band (1.26–1.36 μm). The proposed device uses a tapered few-mode fiber (FMF) to lower the effective mode index...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,688 Views
16 Pages

11 July 2021

The automatic detection of deceptive behaviors has recently attracted the attention of the research community due to the variety of areas where it can play a crucial role, such as security or criminology. This work is focused on the development of an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,971 Views
23 Pages

Time-Frequency Aliased Signal Identification Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion

  • Hailong Zhang,
  • Lichun Li,
  • Hongyi Pan,
  • Weinian Li and
  • Siyao Tian

16 April 2024

The identification of multi-source signals with time-frequency aliasing is a complex problem in wideband signal reception. The traditional method of first separation and identification especially fails due to the significant separation error under un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,092 Views
10 Pages

2 May 2016

This paper proposes a new cross-hole tomography imaging (CTI) method for variable-depth defects in metal plates based on multi-mode electromagnetic ultrasonic Lamb waves (LWs). The dispersion characteristics determine that different modes of LWs are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,139 Views
20 Pages

Enhanced CAD Detection Using Novel Multi-Modal Learning: Integration of ECG, PCG, and Coupling Signals

  • Chengfa Sun,
  • Xiaolei Liu,
  • Changchun Liu,
  • Xinpei Wang,
  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Shilong Zhao and
  • Ming Zhang

Early and highly precise detection is essential for delaying the progression of coronary artery disease (CAD). Previous methods primarily based on single-modal data inherently lack sufficient information that compromises detection precision. This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
520 Views
22 Pages

Multimodal Optimal Base Station Selection Network for Intelligent Communications

  • Haie Dou,
  • Xinyu Zhan,
  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Taojie Zhu and
  • Lei Wang

12 November 2025

With the rapid development of next-generation wireless communication systems, the increasing density of heterogeneous base stations and the dynamic nature of channel conditions have posed significant challenges to accurate and timely base station sel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,127 Views
24 Pages

CTDUNet: A Multimodal CNN–Transformer Dual U-Shaped Network with Coordinate Space Attention for Camellia oleifera Pests and Diseases Segmentation in Complex Environments

  • Ruitian Guo,
  • Ruopeng Zhang,
  • Hao Zhou,
  • Tunjun Xie,
  • Yuting Peng,
  • Xili Chen,
  • Guo Yu,
  • Fangying Wan,
  • Lin Li and
  • Ruifeng Liu
  • + 1 author

15 August 2024

Camellia oleifera is a crop of high economic value, yet it is particularly susceptible to various diseases and pests that significantly reduce its yield and quality. Consequently, the precise segmentation and classification of diseased Camellia leave...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,038 Views
12 Pages

18 May 2020

The multimode and dispersion characteristics of Lamb waves make them difficult to apply to nondestructive evaluation. This paper presents a paired configuration of a meander-line coil electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) to generate a single-mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,546 Views
21 Pages

29 October 2024

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is an irreversible and fatal disease. It necessitates timely and precise diagnosis to slow CAD progression. Electrocardiogram (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG), conveying abundant disease-related information, are prevalent...

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