Microstructured Optical Fibers
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 487
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fiber optics; materials for fiber optics; optical polymers; microstructured optical fiber; photonic crystal fiber; design and fabrication of optical fibers; optical fiber testing; post-processing of optical fibers; optical fiber devices; optical fiber sensors; optical fiber interferometers; interferometry; fiber lasers; nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers
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Dear Colleagues,
Microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) were proposed and experimentally confirmed by researchers from United Kingdom in 1991 as some alternative to conventional optical fibers. Usually, the MOFs are fabricated from a single material, glass or polymer (plastic). To confine light in solid or hollow cores of MOFs, air channels are prepared in their cladding around the cores along MOF entire lengths. The developed MOFs opened new possibilities for sensing technology. Sensing devices based on MOFs have a very small dimensions of sensing probes, which also have lightweight and immunity to electromagnetic fields. It is not difficult to connect the sensing probes with control systems. The MOF air channels can be filled with liquid or gas analyte samples, giving additional possibilities for sensing. Sensing devices based on MOFs have already been developed for measurement with a very high sensitivity of curvature or bending, strain, pressure, temperature, refractive index, gas, chemical or biological quantities and so on. The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase the latest developments in fabrication and application of different sensing devices based on microstructured optical fibers, as well as to inform about new developments in this field.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir P. Minkovich
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microstructured optical fibers
- curvature or bend sensors
- strain sensors
- pressure sensors
- temperature sensors
- gas sensors
- chemical sensors
- refractive index sensors
- biosensors
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