Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

[HTML][HTML] Optical fiber sensors based on sol–gel materials: design, fabrication and application in concrete structures

RB Figueira, JM de Almeida, B Ferreira, L Coelho… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical fiber sensing systems have been widely developed for several fields such as
biomedical diagnosis, food technology, military and industrial applications and civil …

A Fe-C coated long-period fiber grating sensor for corrosion-induced mass loss measurement

Y Chen, F Tang, Y Bao, Y Tang, G Chen - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
This Letter reports a Fe-C coated long period fiber gratings sensor with a grating period of
387±0.1 μm for corrosion monitoring of low carbon steel in a 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution. An …

Characterization of zinc oxide coated optical fiber long period gratings with improved refractive index sensing properties

L Coelho, D Viegas, JL Santos, J De Almeida - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2016 - Elsevier
A fiber-optic refractive index (RI) sensor based on a long period fiber grating (LPFG) coated
with a zinc oxide (ZnO) thin film was fabricated and characterized. A method to overcoat the …

Graphene oxide functionalized long period fiber grating for highly sensitive hemoglobin detection

C Liu, BJ Xu, L Zhou, Z Sun, HJ Mao, JL Zhao… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets functionalized long period grating (LPG) for
ultrasensitive hemoglobin sensing. The sensing mechanism relies on the measurement of …

Sensitivity enhancement in long period gratings by mode transition in uncoated double cladding fibers

F Esposito, A Srivastava, L Sansone… - IEEE Sensors …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work deals with long period gratings (LPGs) fabricated in double cladding fibers (DCFs)
with W-type refractive index profile and analyzes their surrounding refractive index (SRI) …

Black phosphorus integrated tilted fiber grating for ultrasensitive heavy metal sensing

C Liu, Z Sun, L Zhang, J Lv, XF Yu, X Chen - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
We report the sub-parts-per-billion (sub-ppb) level detection of lead using black phosphorus
(BP) integrated tilted fiber grating (BP-TFG) configuration where the light-matter interaction is …

Highly sensitive refractive index fiber inline Mach–Zehnder interferometer fabricated by femtosecond laser micromachining and chemical etching

XY Sun, DK Chu, XR Dong, HT Li, YW Hu… - Optics & Laser …, 2016 - Elsevier
A High sensitive refractive index (RI) sensor based on Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) in
a conventional single-mode optical fiber is proposed, which is fabricated by femtosecond …

Arc‐Induced Long Period Fiber Gratings

G Rego - journal of Sensors, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Long period fiber gratings produced by the electric arc technique have found an increasing
interest by the scientific community due to their ease to fabricate, virtually enabling the …

Label-free sensitivity of long-period gratings enhanced by atomic layer deposited TiO2 nano-overlays

M Smietana, M Koba, E Brzozowska, K Krogulski… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we discuss an impact of thin titanium dioxide (TiO_2) coatings on refractive
index (RI) sensitivity and biofunctionalization of long-period gratings (LPGs). The TiO_2 …