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Dr Ir Sophie ACHEROY

sophie.acheroy@mil.be          Academic details

Research projects

F10/06

This study aims at exploring the potential of plastic optical fibers (POF) in different application domains relevant for Defense such as the realisation of high throughput tactical networks or the realisation of sensors.

Publications

  1. Sophie Acheroy. Polymer optical structures for sensing. PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Royal Military Academy, 2017.
  2. S Acheroy, T Geernaert, H Ottevaere, H Thienpont, D J Webb, and C A F Marques. Determination of the radial profile of the photoelastic coefficient of plastic optical fibers. In POF conference 2016, 2016.
  3. Sophie Acheroy, Patrick Merken, Thomas Geernaert, Heidi Ottevaere, Hugo Thienpont, and Francis Berghmans. Determination of the radial profile of the photoelastic coefficient of polymer optical fibers. In Kyriacos Kalli and Alexis Mendez, editors, Micro-Structured and Specialty Optical Fibres IV, SPIE 2016, 2016.
  4. Sophie Acheroy, Patrick Merken, Thomas Geernaert, Heidi Ottevaere, Hugo Thienpont, and Francis Berghmans. Inverse Abel transform algorithms to determine the radial profile of the photoelastic coefficient of glass optical fibers. In Francis Berghmans and Anna G. Mignani, editors, Optical Sensing an Detection IV, 2016.
  5. Sophie Acheroy, Patrick Merken, Heidi Ottevaere, Thomas Geernaert, Hugo Thienpont, Carlos A. F. Marques, David J. Webb, Peng Gang-Ding, Mergo Pawel, and Francis Berghmans. Thermal effects on the photoelastic coefficient of polymer optical fibers. Optics letters, 41(11):2517-2520, 2016.
  6. S Acheroy, P Merken, T Geernaert, H Ottevaere, H Thienpont, and F Berghmans. Algorithms for determining the radial profile of the photoelastic coefficient in glass and polymer optical fibers. Optics Express, 23(15), 2015.
  7. Sophie Acheroy, Merken Patrick, Geernaert Thomas, Heidi Ottevaere, Hugo Thienpont, and Francis Berghmans. On a possible method to measure the radial profile of the photoelastic constant in step-index optical fiber. In Francis Berghmans, Anna G. Mignani, and Piet De Moor, editors, SPIE: Optical Sensing and Detection III. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 9141, 914115, 2014.
  8. S Acheroy, P Merken, H Ottevaere, T Geernaert, H Thienpont, and F Berghmans. Influence of measurement noise on the determination of the radial profile of the photoelastic coefficient in step-index optical fibers. Applied Optics, 52(35), 2013.