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 …

Towards a uniform metrological assessment of grating-based optical fiber sensors: From refractometers to biosensors

F Chiavaioli, CAJ Gouveia, PAS Jorge, F Baldini - Biosensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
A metrological assessment of grating-based optical fiber sensors is proposed with the aim of
providing an objective evaluation of the performance of this sensor category. Attention was …

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 …

Lab on Fiber Technology for biological sensing applications

P Vaiano, B Carotenuto, M Pisco… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This review presents an overview of “Lab on Fiber” technologies and devices with special
focus on the design and development of advanced fiber optic nanoprobes for biological …

Label-free biosensors based on long period fiber gratings: a review

F Esposito, A Srivastava, L Sansone… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fiber optic label-free biosensors are currently experiencing wide diffusion, as they combine
the performance of optical measurements with the advantages of optical fiber. This paper …

Atomic layer deposition for biosensing applications

O Graniel, M Weber, S Balme, P Miele… - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a thin film deposition technique currently used in various
nanofabrication processes for microelectronic applications. The ability to coat high aspect …

Review of optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometers with micro-cavity fabricated by femtosecond laser and sensing applications

Y Zhao, H Zhao, R Lv, J Zhao - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, optical fiber sensors have become most popular due to their unique
advantages. A review of optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) with micro-cavity …

Sol–gel-based titania–silica thin film overlay for long period fiber grating-based biosensors

F Chiavaioli, P Biswas, C Trono, S Jana… - Analytical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
An evanescent wave optical fiber biosensor based on titania–silica-coated long period
grating (LPG) is presented. The chemical overlay, which increases the refractive index (RI) …

Long-period fiber grating sensors for chemical and biomedical applications

J Cai, Y Liu, X Shu - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Optical fiber biosensors (OFBS) are being increasingly proposed due to their intrinsic
advantages over conventional sensors, including their compactness, potential remote …

Towards refractive index sensitivity of long-period gratings at level of tens of µm per refractive index unit: fiber cladding etching and nano-coating deposition

M Śmietana, M Koba, P Mikulic, WJ Bock - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In this work we report experimental results on optimizing the refractive index (RI) sensitivity
of long-period gratings (LPGs) by fiber cladding etching and thin aluminum oxide (Al_2O_3) …