Research activities

• Fibre Bragg gratings
  • Manufacturing & Characterization
  • Polarization properties metrology
• Optical fibre metrology
  • Distributed measurements
  • Polarization
• Distributed and quasi-distributed optical fibre sensors
  • OTDR
  • OFDR
• FBG based optical fibre sensors
  • Physical: temperature, humidity, fire detection
  • Mechanical: strain, stress, vibration
  • Chemical: SRI, H2
• Non-linear effects in optical fibre & fibre lasers
  • All-fibre pulsed lasers
  • Supercontinuum generation
  • Random fibre lasers
  • Raman & Brillouin effects
• Telecommunication systems
  • Access networks
  • Impulse noise
  • RF metrology
  • High BER metrology
• Computer networking
  • MAC mechanisms, metrology and interactions with PHY layer

Our unit is also associated with the following UMONS research institutes :