Review of femtosecond-laser-inscribed fiber Bragg gratings: fabrication technologies and sensing applications

J He, B Xu, X Xu, C Liao, Y Wang - Photonic Sensors, 2021 - Springer
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is the most widely used optical fiber sensor due to its compact
size, high sensitivity, and easiness for multiplexing. Conventional FBGs fabricated by using …

[PDF][PDF] Specialty optical fibers for advanced sensing applications

H Liu, DJJ Hu, Q Sun, L Wei, K Li, C Liao, B Li… - Opto-Electronic …, 2023 - researching.cn
Optical fiber technology has changed the world by enabling extraordinary growth in world-
wide communications and sensing. The rapid development and wide deployment of optical …

Femtosecond laser direct writing of functional stimulus-responsive structures and applications

Y Zhang, D Wu, Y Zhang, Y Bian, C Wang… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Diverse natural organisms possess stimulus-responsive structures to adapt to the
surrounding environment. Inspired by nature, researchers have developed various smart …

[PDF][PDF] Advances in femtosecond laser direct writing of fiber Bragg gratings in multicore fibers: technology, sensor and laser applications

A Wolf, A Dostovalov, K Bronnikov, M Skvortsov… - Opto-Electron …, 2022 - researching.cn
In this article, we review recent advances in the technology of writing fiber Bragg gratings
(FBGs) in selected cores of multicore fibers (MCFs) by using femtosecond laser pulses. The …

3D manufacturing of glass microstructures using femtosecond laser

A Butkutė, L Jonušauskas - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The rapid expansion of femtosecond (fs) laser technology brought previously unavailable
capabilities to laser material processing. One of the areas which benefited the most due to …

Advances in multicore fiber grating sensors

Z Zhao, Y Dang, M Tang - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, multicore fiber (MCF) has attracted increasing interest for sensing
applications, due to its unique fiber structure of multiple parallel cores in a single fiber …

Durable shape sensor based on FBG array inscribed in polyimide-coated multicore optical fiber

K Bronnikov, A Wolf, S Yakushin, A Dostovalov… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The paper presents a novel three-dimensional quasi-continuous shape sensor based on an
FBG array inscribed by femtosecond laser pulses into a 7-core optical fiber with a polyimide …

Femtosecond laser auto-positioning direct writing of a multicore fiber Bragg grating array for shape sensing

X **ao, B Xu, X Xu, B Du, Z Chen, C Fu, C Liao, J He… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A multicore fiber Bragg grating (MC-FBG) array shape sensor is a powerful tool for a variety
of applications. However, the efficient fabrication of high-quality MC-FBG arrays remains a …

High-spatial-resolution φ-OFDR shape sensor based on multicore optical fiber with femtosecond-laser-induced permanent scatter arrays

C Fu, Y Meng, L Chen, H Zhong, C Du, J He, X Weng… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
An optical fiber φ-OFDR shape sensor with a submillimeter spatial resolution of 200? µm
was demonstrated by using femtosecond-laser-induced permanent scatter array (PS array) …

Curvature, twist and pose measurements using fiber Bragg gratings in multi-core fiber: A comparative study between helical and straight core fibers

F Khan, D Barrera, S Sales, S Misra - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a technique to acquire measurements of curvature, twist and pose for
two multi-core fibers; one with straight cores and the other with helical cores. Both the fibers …