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 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 …

A comprehensive review of optical fiber refractometers: Toward a standard comparative criterion

A Urrutia, I Del Villar, P Zubiate… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Thanks to the peculiarities of optical fiber and its ability to be combined with
nanotechnology, precise and accurate measurements of the changes in optical properties …

Ultrasensitive refractive index sensor based on enhanced Vernier effect through cascaded fiber core-offset pairs

J Li, M Zhang, M Wan, C Lin, S Huang, C Liu, Q He… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
An ultrasensitive refractive index (RI) sensor based on enhanced Vernier effect is proposed,
which consists of two cascaded fiber core-offset pairs. One pair functions as a Mach …

Highly-sensitive gas pressure sensor using twin-core fiber based in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Z Li, C Liao, Y Wang, L Xu, D Wang, X Dong, S Liu… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on a twin-core fiber was proposed and
experimentally demonstrated for gas pressure measurements. The in-line Mach-Zehnder …

Review of optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometers with micro-cavity fabricated by femtosecond laser and sensing applications

Y Zhao, H Zhao, R Lv, J Zhao - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, optical fiber sensors have become most popular due to their unique
advantages. A review of optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) with micro-cavity …

[HTML][HTML] In-line fiber optic interferometric sensors in single-mode fibers

T Zhu, D Wu, M Liu, DW Duan - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
In-line fiber optic interferometers have attracted intensive attention for their potential sensing
applications in refractive index, temperature, pressure and strain measurement, etc. Typical …

An ultra-sensitive gas pressure sensor based on tapered fiber coated with PDMS film working at TAP

Y Zhao, J Liu, H Li, M Xu, J Li, C Jing, L Ding… - Optics & Laser …, 2022 - Elsevier
An ultra-sensitive gas pressure sensor based on tapered single-mode fiber (SMF) coated
with thin polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film which works at turning around point (TAP) is …

In-fiber interferometry sensors for refractive index

D Aydin, JA Barnes, HP Loock - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Compact interferometers based on waveguiding structures have found countless
applications in refractive index measurements, chemical sensing, as well as temperature …

Miniature fiber-optic Fabry-Perot refractive index sensor for gas sensing with a resolution of 5x10−9 RIU

S Pevec, D Donlagic - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents a micro-machined, high-resolution refractive index sensor suitable for
monitoring of small changes in the composition of gases. Experimentally demonstrated …