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 …

A singlemode-multimode-singlemode (SMS) fiber structure consists of a short section of
multimode fiber fusion-spliced between two SMS fibers. The mechanism underpinning the …

Fiber optic interferometers to sense various physical parameters including temperature,
strain, pressure, and refractive index have been widely investigated. They can be …

Photonic-Crystal Fibers Page 1 JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 24, NO. 12,
DECEMBER 2006 4729 Photonic-Crystal Fibers Philip St.J. Russell, Member, IEEE Invited …

A fiber-optic strain sensor is demonstrated by using a short length of polarization-
maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF) as the sensing element inserted in a Sagnac …

A novel intrinsic fiber optic pressure sensor realized with a polarization-maintaining photonic
crystal fiber (PM-PCF) based Sagnac interferometer is proposed and demonstrated …

A review of optical fiber sensing demonstrations based on photonic crystal fibers is
presented. The text is organized in five main sections: the first three deal with sensing …

We report a magnetic field sensor having advantages of both photonic crystal fiber and
optofluidics, combining them on a single platform by infiltrating small amount of Fe 3 O 4 …

A novel approach to the measurement of microwave frequency based on optical power
monitoring is proposed and demonstrated. The microwave signal with its frequency to be …

Optical fibres have proved to be an important medium for manipulating and generating light
in applications including soliton transmission, light amplification, all-optical switching and …