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 …

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are point optical fiber sensors that allow the monitoring of a
diversity of environmental parameters, eg, temperature or strain. Several research groups …

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the field of modern fiber optics, beginning
with the basics of the field summarized in an introductory chapter. Expert contributors then …

We designed, manufactured and characterized two birefringent microstructured fibers that
feature a 5-fold increase in polarimetric sensitivity to hydrostatic pressure compared to the …

Optofluidics is an emerging field that involves the use of fluids to modify optical properties
and the use of optical devices to detect flowing media. Ultimately, its value is highly …

We present fiber Bragg grating based transversal load sensing with a highly birefringent
microstructured optical fiber. For the bare fiber, the change of the Bragg peak separation …

This paper reviews the state‐of‐the‐art of grating fabrication in silica and polymer
microstructured optical fibres. It focuses on the difficulties and challenges encountered …

We report what we believe to be the first highly symmetric first-order IR femtosecond laser
fiber Bragg gratings within the telecommunications C band in free-standing optical fiber …

In this paper we analyse the recent advances on sensors based on photonic crystal fibres
(PCFs) and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. Some innovative approaches to …

The first fiber Bragg gratings were accidentally written in a Ge-doped silica fiber using a high
power argon–ion laser [Hill 1978]. Following this first evidence of photosensitivity in optical …