Abstract: The connection device for liquid-core optical fiber comprises a sleeve traversed by a channel comprising a plurality of communicating stacked conduits, a first conduit being formed from an end of the sleeve and being arranged to receive, in a sealed manner, at the corresponding end of the sleeve, one end of the optical fiber, and a second conduit being formed communicating with the first conduit, and closing means that hermetically seal the end of the second conduit opposite the end that communicates with the first conduit, the sleeve further having a third conduit for filling the internal volume of the second conduit when the latter is closed at one end by the closing device and the fiber is inserted into the first conduit, the third conduit transversely connecting the outside of the sleeve with the inside of the second conduit, and a sealing plug for hermetically sealing the port of the third conduit opening to the outside of the sleeve.

Abstract: The connection device for liquid-core optical fibre comprises a sleeve traversed by a channel comprising a plurality of communicating stacked conduits, a first conduit being formed from an end of the sleeve and being arranged to receive, in a sealed manner, at the corresponding end of the sleeve, one end of the optical fibre, and a second conduit being formed communicating with the first conduit, and closing means that hermetically seal the end of the second conduit opposite the end that communicates with the first conduit, the sleeve further having a third conduit for filling the internal volume of the second conduit when the latter is closed at one end by the closing device and the fibre is inserted into the first conduit, the third conduit transversely connecting the outside of the sleeve with the inside of the second conduit, and a sealing plug for hermetically sealing the port of the third conduit opening to the outside of the sleeve.

Abstract: This invention concerns an acousto-optic imaging method comprising a step which consists in engraving in a dynamic holographic material a complex index array resulting from the interference of the acousto-optic component of the signal wave and a pump wave of frequency equal to the frequency of the acousto-optic component.

Abstract: This invention concerns an acousto-optic imaging method comprising a step which consists in engraving in a dynamic holographic material a complex index array resulting from the interference of the acousto-optic component of the signal wave and a pump wave of frequency equal to the frequency of the acousto-optic component.

Abstract: A process for velocimetric measurement of a target including causing interference in a dynamic holographic material of a reference laser beam and a beam diffused by the target, and measuring variations in luminous intensity transmitted by the material with a photoelectric detector, wherein the target vibrates with a displacement greater than the wavelength and with an extension limited around a mean position.

Abstract: A process for velocimetric measurement of a target including causing interference in a dynamic holographic material of a reference laser beam and a beam diffused by the target, and measuring variations in luminous intensity transmitted by the material with a photoelectric detector, wherein the target vibrates with a displacement greater than the wavelength and with an extension limited around a mean position.

Abstract: A gyroscope comprising a source for emitting a light beam, an optical fiber loop in which the light propagates in both directions, a dual phase-conjugate mirror disposed in said loop in such a manner that light reaches said mirror from both sides thereof, recombination means for recombining the light which has propagated round the loop, and detector means for detecting the recombined signal, wherein the loop includes a monomode fiber that does not conserve polarization and wherein depolarization means are disposed between said fiber and the phase-conjugate mirror, on either side thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided of optically detecting transient motion from the surface of a workpiece. After directing a laser beam onto a surface of a workpiece the beam is reflected from it and then interferes with a pump beam removed from the laser source, inside a real-time holographic material, so as to form a grating diffracting the pump beam into a reference beam, which interferes at the output of the real-time holographic material with the received light beam, so as to produce a signal representative of the surface transient motion. An electric field is applied to the holographic material of sufficient magnitude to increase substantially the intensity of said reference beam and to give to this beam a phase differing substantially from the phase of said received light beam.