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 …

Towards a uniform metrological assessment of grating-based optical fiber sensors: From refractometers to biosensors

F Chiavaioli, CAJ Gouveia, PAS Jorge, F Baldini - Biosensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
A metrological assessment of grating-based optical fiber sensors is proposed with the aim of
providing an objective evaluation of the performance of this sensor category. Attention was …

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 …

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 …

All-optical free-space routing of upconverted light by metasurfaces via nonlinear interferometry

A Di Francescantonio, A Zilli, D Rocco… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
All-optical modulation yields the promise of high-speed information processing. In this field,
metasurfaces are rapidly gaining traction as ultrathin multifunctional platforms for light …

High sensitivity SMS fiber structure based refractometer–analysis and experiment

Q Wu, Y Semenova, P Wang, G Farrell - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We have investigated the influence of multimode fiber core (MMFC) diameters and lengths
on the sensitivity of an SMS fiber based refractometer. We show that the MMFC diameter has …

Refractive index sensing with Mach–Zehnder interferometer based on concatenating two single-mode fiber tapers

Z Tian, SSH Yam, J Barnes, W Bock… - IEEE Photonics …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel refractive index (RI) sensor based on a fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer was
realized by concatenating two single-mode fiber tapers separated by a middle section. The …

Optical fiber sensors: Working principle, applications, and limitations

M Elsherif, AE Salih, MG Muñoz, F Alam… - Advanced Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fiber‐optic technology emerged originally for applications in data transmission and
telecommunications. However, sensors based on fiber‐optics have been developed rapidly …

Refractive index sensor based on an abrupt taper Michelson interferometer in a single-mode fiber

Z Tian, SSH Yam, HP Loock - Optics letters, 2008 - opg.optica.org
A simple refractive index sensor based on a Michelson interferometer in a single-mode fiber
is constructed and demonstrated. The sensor consists of a single symmetrically abrupt taper …

Review on fiber-optic sensing in health monitoring of power grids

Q Chai, Y Luo, J Ren, J Zhang, J Yang… - Optical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Fiber-optic sensing technology is best adapted to health monitoring and evaluation of power
grids because of its immunity of electromagnetic interference, capabilities of multiplexing …