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 …

The optical fiber tip: an inherently light‐coupled microscopic platform for micro‐and nanotechnologies

G Kostovski, PR Stoddart, A Mitchell - Advanced Materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The flat tip of an optical fiber is a unique and unconventional platform for micro and
nanotechnologies. The small cross‐section and large aspect ratio of the fiber provide an …

High sensitivity SMS fiber structure based refractometer–analysis and experiment

Q Wu, Y Semenova, P Wang, G Farrell - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We have investigated the influence of multimode fiber core (MMFC) diameters and lengths
on the sensitivity of an SMS fiber based refractometer. We show that the MMFC diameter has …

High-sensitivity, evanescent field refractometric sensor based on a tapered, multimode fiber interference

P Wang, G Brambilla, M Ding, Y Semenova, Q Wu… - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate an enhanced evanescent field fiber
refractometer based on a tapered multimode fiber sandwiched between two single-mode …

Simultaneous measurement of pressure and temperature by employing Fabry-Perot interferometer based on pendant polymer droplet

B Sun, Y Wang, J Qu, C Liao, G Yin, J He, J Zhou… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We investigated a novel and ultracompact polymer-capped Fabry-Perot interferometer,
which is based on a polymer capped on the endface of a single mode fiber (SMF). The …

Review of femtosecond laser direct writing fiber-optic structures based on refractive index modification and their applications

J Zhao, Y Zhao, Y Peng, R Lv, Q Zhao - Optics & Laser Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Femtosecond (fs) laser pulses direct writing technology has been extensively employed to
achieve microfabrication in various optical fibers for a broad range of applications. In this …

In-fiber interferometry sensors for refractive index

D Aydin, JA Barnes, HP Loock - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Compact interferometers based on waveguiding structures have found countless
applications in refractive index measurements, chemical sensing, as well as temperature …

New trends on optical fiber tweezers

RSR Ribeiro, O Soppera, AG Oliva… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last few decades, optical trapping has played an unique role concerning contactless
trapping and manipulation of biological specimens. More recently, optical fiber tweezers …

A hybrid self-growing polymer microtip for ultracompact and fast fiber humidity sensing

Z Hu, Y Chen, J Tan, ZY Yan, Z Weng, M Gusain… - Sensors and actuators B …, 2021 - Elsevier
A hybrid self-growing polymer microtip is firstly proposed and fabricated as an ultracompact
fiber-tip Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) with enhanced figure of merit (FoM). The hybrid …

Advances in fiber‐optic technology for point‐of‐care diagnosis and in vivo biosensing

S Tabassum, R Kumar - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of reliable, sensitive, selective, and miniaturized sensing
technologies is critical for health assessment and early diagnosis and treatment of …