Single-fiber probes for combined sensing and imaging in biological tissue: recent developments and prospects

J Li, SC Warren-Smith, RA McLaughlin… - Biomedical Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Single-fiber-based sensing and imaging probes enable the co-located and simultaneous
observation and measurement (ie,'sense'and 'see') of intricate biological processes within …

Functionalized microstructured optical fibers: materials, methods, applications

T Ermatov, JS Skibina, VV Tuchin, DA Gorin - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microstructured optical fiber-based sensors (MOF) have been widely developed finding
numerous applications in various fields of photonics, biotechnology, and medicine. High …

An optical fibre-based sensor for the detection of gaseous ammonia with methylammonium lead halide perovskite

S Ruan, J Lu, N Pai, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Highly fluorescent perovskite materials have attracted considerable interest for fundamental
research and potential applications. In this work, we demonstrate the recoverable PL …

Perspective: Biomedical sensing and imaging with optical fibers—Innovation through convergence of science disciplines

J Li, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem, BC Gibson… - APL photonics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The probing of physiological processes in living organisms is a grand challenge that
requires bespoke analytical tools. Optical fiber probes offer a minimally invasive approach to …

Multimode exposed core fiber specklegram sensor

TD Cabral, E Fujiwara, SC Warren-Smith… - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The inception of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) allowed for unprecedented tailoring of
waveguide properties for specialty sensing probes. Exposed core microstructured fibers …

Fabrication, splicing, Bragg grating writing, and polyelectrolyte functionalization of exposed-core microstructured optical fibers

SC Warren-Smith, R Kostecki, LV Nguyen… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond laser written Bragg gratings have been written in exposed-core
microstructured optical fibers with core diameters ranging from 2.7 µm to 12.5 µm and can …

Taming the light in microstructured optical fibers for sensing

EP Schartner, G Tsiminis, A François… - … Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we examine recent developments in the field of chemical and biological
sensing utilizing suspended‐core, exposed‐core, and hollow‐core microstructured optical …

Fabrication of low-loss, small-core exposed core microstructured optical fibers

EP Schartner, A Dowler… - Optical Materials …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate low-loss guidance of small-core exposed core fibers, fabricated through a
drilling technique in fused silica glass. By modifying the design and fabrication procedure a …

Third harmonic generation in exposed-core microstructured optical fibers

SC Warren-Smith, J Wie, M Chemnitz, R Kostecki… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Inter-modal phase-matched third harmonic generation has been demonstrated in an
exposed-core microstructured optical fiber. Our fiber, with a partially open core having a …

Surface functionalization of exposed core glass optical fiber for metal ion sensing

A Bachhuka, S Heng, K Vasilev, R Kostecki, A Abell… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
One of the biggest challenges associated with exposed core glass optical fiber-based
sensing is the availability of techniques that can be used to generate reproducible …