The promising properties of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) have sparked the interest of a
number of research organizations. Due to the PCF's air holes, liquid or gas samples can be …

Photonic crystal fibers are a kind of fiber optics that present a diversity of new and improved
features beyond what conventional optical fibers can offer. Due to their unique geometric …

In-line fiber optic interferometers have attracted intensive attention for their potential sensing
applications in refractive index, temperature, pressure and strain measurement, etc. Typical …

Low frequency under-water acoustic signal detections are challenging, especially for marine
applications. A Mach-Zehnder interferometric hydrophone is demonstrated using …

In recent years, photonic sensors have seen a massive development because of the
increasing demand of sensing applications in healthcare, defence, security, automotive …

This paper presents a novel hydrostatic pressure sensor using high birefringence photonic
crystal fibers (PCFs), featuring an enhanced sensitivity with wide range of detection along …

A high sensitivity gold coated circular nano-film photonic crystal fiber (PCF) biosensor based
on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is proposed. Finite element method (FEM) has been …

We report on a refractive index sensor using a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) interferometer
which was realized by fusion splicing a short section of PCF (Blaze Photonics, LMA-10) …

A temperature-compensated distributed hydrostatic pressure sensor based on Brillouin
dynamic gratings (BDGs) is proposed and demonstrated experimentally for the first time, to …

The intrinsic hydrostatic pressure sensitivity of polymer optical fiber Bragg grating (POFBG)
with different diameters are investigated. POFBGs are inscribed in single-mode polymer …