Photonic crystal fibers are a kind of fiber optics that present a diversity of new and improved
features beyond what conventional optical fibers can offer. Due to their unique geometric …

Recently developed micro-and nano-structured optical fiber sensors, with particular
reference to surface plasmon resonance (SPR) fiber sensors and photonic crystal fiber …

Photonic crystal fiber sensors have potential application in environmental monitoring,
industry, biomedicine, food preservation, and many more. These sensors work based on …

A review of optical fiber sensing demonstrations based on photonic crystal fibers is
presented. The text is organized in five main sections: the first three deal with sensing …

This paper reviews a wide variety of fiber-optic microstructure (FOM) sensors, such as fiber
Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, long-period fiber grating (LPFG) sensors, Fabry-Perot …

Optical sensing has undergone tremendous advancements with the advent of photonic
crystal fibers (PCFs). Similarly, optical sensing utilizing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) …

We demonstrate a polarization-maintaining (PM) photonic crystal fiber (PCF) based Sagnac
interferometer for downhole high pressure sensing application. The PM PCF serves as a …

Recent advances in devices and applications of high-birefringence fiber loop mirror sensors
are addressed. In optical sensing, these devices may be used as strain and temperature …

This paper reviews recent advancements in all-optical memory components, particularly
focusing on various types of all-optical flip-flops (FFs) based on photonic crystal (PC) …

A hydrogen sulfide gas sensor based on graphene-coated tapered photonic crystal fiber
(GTPCF) Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) was proposed and experimentally …