Description

The research areas of the Photonics Engineering Group (GRIFO) can be grouped by the goal of making sensors that can be optically controlled inside an optical communications network. These areas are:

  • Development of sensory systems.
  • Transport of optical information.

Development of sensory systems

This development can be based on optical fiber using infrared radiation remote sensing or by mean of magnetic and organic sensors that are deposited over the optical fiber. In this way it has beem already developed sensors for detecting the temperature without physical contact with high response speed and sea salinity sensors.

Optical information transport

From sensor to the processing node, by mean of optical techniques to control the speed of the light in both fiber and semiconductors. The control of the light speed inside fiber has been obtained using nonlinear optical techniques, such as Stimulated Brillouin Scattering.