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 :