A comprehensive review of optical fiber refractometers: Toward a standard comparative criterion

A Urrutia, I Del Villar, P Zubiate… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Thanks to the peculiarities of optical fiber and its ability to be combined with
nanotechnology, precise and accurate measurements of the changes in optical properties …

[HTML][HTML] A review: Development of novel fiber-optic platforms for bulk and surface refractive index sensing applications

J Li - Sensors and Actuators Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The expanding role of refractive index measurement in many fields including chemistry,
biology and medicine, food industry, process control, and environmental monitoring, has led …

Fiber in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer fabricated by femtosecond laser micromachining for refractive index measurement with high sensitivity

Y Wang, M Yang, DN Wang, S Liu, P Lu - JOSA B, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We report a compact fiber in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer for refractive index sensing
with high sensitivity and precise sensing location. One arm of the interferometer contains a …

Line-by-line fiber Bragg grating made by femtosecond laser

K Zhou, M Dubov, C Mou, L Zhang… - IEEE Photonics …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we report on the inscription of a fourth-order fiber Bragg grating made line-by-
line in the optical fiber using a femtosecond laser. Strong Bragg resonance (~ 17 dB) and …

Plug-and-play fiber-optic sensors based on engineered cells for neurochemical monitoring at high specificity in freely moving animals

B Zhou, K Fan, J Guo, J Feng, C Yang, Y Li, S Shi… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In vivo detection of neurochemicals, including neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, is
critical for both understanding brain mechanisms and diagnosing brain diseases. However …

Chemical-assisted femtosecond laser writing of lab-in-fibers

M Haque, KKC Lee, S Ho, LA Fernandes, PR Herman - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The lab-on-chip (LOC) platform has presented a powerful opportunity to improve
functionalization, parallelization, and miniaturization on planar or multilevel geometries that …

A true fiber optic refractometer

W Zhou, Y Zhou, J Albert - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The best instrument to measure the refractive index of liquids is the Abbe refractometer
which can only provide accuracies of the order of 10− 5 at visible wavelengths and 10− 4 in …

Optical fiber sensors by direct laser processing: A review

D Pallarés-Aldeiturriaga, P Roldán-Varona… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The consolidation of laser micro/nano processing technologies has led to a continuous
increase in the complexity of optical fiber sensors. This new avenue offers novel possibilities …

In-fiber modal interferometer for simultaneous measurement of refractive index and temperature

X Yu, X Chen, D Bu, J Zhang… - IEEE photonics technology …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact and simple fiber in-line modal interferometer with an embedded fiber Bragg
grating (FBG) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for simultaneous measurement …

Femtosecond laser writing of near-surface waveguides for refractive-index sensing

AA Khalil, P Lalanne, JP Bérubé, Y Petit, R Vallée… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond laser writing of optical waveguides and components in glasses has been a
remarkably growing research field during the last two decades. However, such laser …