Polymer optical fibers (POFs) have significant advantages for many sensing applications,
including high elastic strain limits, high fracture toughness, high flexibility in bending, high …

Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) pressure sensors show a great potential in replacing conventional
electrical pressure sensors due to their numerous advantages. However, increasing their …

In the quest of finding the ideal polymer optical fiber (POF) for Bragg grating sensing, we
have fabricated and characterized an endlessly single mode microstructured POF (mPOF) …

Aging degradation and seismic damage of civil infrastructures have become a serious issue
for society, and one promising technology for monitoring their conditions is optical fiber …

This review paper summarizes the current state of research into polymer optical fibre grating
sensors. The properties of polymers are explored to identify situations where polymers offer …

We present the fabrication and characterization of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) in an
endlessly single-mode microstructured polymer optical fiber (mPOF) made of humidity …

Here we present the fabrication of a solid-core microstructured polymer optical fiber (mPOF)
made of polycarbonate (PC), and report the first experimental demonstration of a fiber Bragg …

We report the fabrication and characterization of a polycarbonate (PC) microstructured
polymer optical fiber (mPOF) Bragg grating (FBG) humidity sensor that can operate beyond …

We report the extraordinary result of rapid fibre Bragg grating inscription in doped polymer
optical fibres based on polymethyl methacrylate in only 7 ms, which is two orders of …

In this work we experimentally investigate the response time of humidity sensors based on
polymer optical fiber Bragg gratings. By the use of etching with acetone we can control the …