Singlemode-multimode-singlemode fiber structures for sensing applications—A review

Q Wu, Y Qu, J Liu, J Yuan, SP Wan, T Wu… - IEEE sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A singlemode-multimode-singlemode (SMS) fiber structure consists of a short section of
multimode fiber fusion-spliced between two SMS fibers. The mechanism underpinning the …

Optical fibre nanowires and microwires: a review

G Brambilla - Journal of Optics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical fibre nanowires and microwires offer a variety of enabling properties, including large
evanescent fields, flexibility, configurability, high confinement, robustness and compactness …

Micro/nanofibre optical sensors: challenges and prospects

L Tong - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Micro/nanofibres (MNFs) are optical fibres with diameters close to or below the vacuum
wavelength of visible or near-infrared light. Due to its wavelength-or sub-wavelength scale …

Micro-/nanofiber optics: Merging photonics and material science on nanoscale for advanced sensing technology

L Zhang, Y Tang, L Tong - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Micro-/nanofibers (MNFs) are optical fibers with diameters close to or below the wavelength
of the guided light. These tiny fibers can offer engineerable waveguiding properties …

Optical microfiber or nanofiber: a miniature fiber-optic platform for nanophotonics

J Zhang, H Fang, P Wang, W Fang, L Zhang… - Photonics …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
An optical micro/nanofiber (MNF) is a quasi-one-dimensional free-standing optical
waveguide with a diameter close to or less than the vacuum wavelength of light. Combining …

Highly sensitive magnetic field sensor based on microfiber coupler with magnetic fluid

L Luo, S Pu, J Tang, X Zeng, M Lahoubi - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A kind of magnetic field sensor using a microfiber coupler (MFC) surrounded with magnetic
fluid (MF) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. As the MFC is strongly sensitive to …

[HTML][HTML] Microfiber-based Bragg gratings for sensing applications: a review

JL Kou, M Ding, J Feng, YQ Lu, F Xu, G Brambilla - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
Microfiber-based Bragg gratings (MFBGs) are an emerging concept in ultra-small optical
fiber sensors. They have attracted great attention among researchers in the fiber sensing …

Optical microfiber sensors: sensing mechanisms, and recent advances

JH Chen, DR Li, F Xu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optical microfibers (MF), as a connection between fiber optics and nanotechnology, can
realize enhanced light-matter/environment interactions, which benefit for optical sensing …

Magnetic field sensor based on a combination of a microfiber coupler covered with magnetic fluid and a Sagnac loop

F Wei, AK Mallik, D Liu, Q Wu, GD Peng, G Farrell… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
This paper proposes a novel magnetic field sensor based on a microfiber coupler (MFC)
combined with a magnetic fluid (MF) in a Sagnac loop formed from a polarization …

Ultrasensitive optical microfiber coupler based sensors operating near the turning point of effective group index difference

K Li, T Zhang, G Liu, N Zhang, M Zhang… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We propose and study an optical microfiber coupler (OMC) sensor working near the turning
point of effective group index difference between the even supermode and odd supermode …