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 …

Optical fiber temperature sensors and their biomedical applications

P Roriz, S Silva, O Frazão, S Novais - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The use of sensors in the real world is on the rise, providing information on medical
diagnostics for healthcare and improving quality of life. Optical fiber sensors, as a result of …

Multichannel fiber optic SPR sensors: Realization methods, application status, and future prospects

S Zhang, B Han, Y Zhang, Y Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fiber optic sensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) have demonstrated
outstanding performance in biomedical, environmental monitoring, public safety, and other …

Interferometric fiber optic sensors

BH Lee, YH Kim, KS Park, JB Eom, MJ Kim, BS Rho… - sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
Fiber optic interferometers to sense various physical parameters including temperature,
strain, pressure, and refractive index have been widely investigated. They can be …

Optical fiber optofluidic bio‐chemical sensors: a review

L Li, Y Zhang, Y Zhou, W Zheng, Y Sun… - Laser & photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Optofluidic, as an emerging technology that combines photons and microfluidics, has
become a powerful, intelligent, and universal sensing platform in the field of bio‐chemical …

Review of high sensitivity fibre-optic pressure sensors for low pressure sensing

E Vorathin, ZM Hafizi, N Ismail, M Loman - Optics & Laser Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) pressure sensors show a great potential in replacing conventional
electrical pressure sensors due to their numerous advantages. However, increasing their …

Comprehensive review tapered optical fiber configurations for sensing application: trend and challenges

BA Taha, N Ali, NM Sapiee, MM Fadhel, RM Mat Yeh… - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Understanding environmental information is necessary for functions correlated with human
activities to improve healthcare quality and reduce ecological risk. Tapered optical fibers …

Temperature-insensitive miniaturized fiber inline Fabry-Perot interferometer for highly sensitive refractive index measurement

T Wei, Y Han, Y Li, HL Tsai, H Xiao - Optics Express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We report a miniaturized fiber inline Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI), with an open micro-
notch cavity fabricated by one-step fs laser micromachining, for highly sensitive refractive …

Tactile sensors for minimally invasive surgery: A review of the state-of-the-art, applications, and perspectives

N Bandari, J Dargahi, M Packirisamy - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Minimally invasive surgery has been one of the most significant evolutions in medicine. In
this approach, the surgeon inserts specially-designed instruments through a small incision …

Ultrasensitive strain sensor based on Vernier-effect improved parallel structured fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer

T Nan, B Liu, Y Wu, J Wang, Y Mao, L Zhao, T Sun… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A novel parallel structured fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) based on Vernier-
effect is theoretically proposed and experimentally demonstrated for ultrasensitive strain …