Novel miniaturized fabry-perot refractometer based on a simplified hollow-core fiber with a hollow silica sphere tip

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1239-1245

  Hu, Dora Juan Juan ^a   Wang, Yixin ^a   Lim, Jun Long ^a   Zhang, Taishi ^a,b   Mileńko, Karolina Barbara ^a,b,c   Chen, Zhihao ^a   Jiang, Meng ^b,d   Wang, Guanghui ^b,d   Luan, Feng ^b,d   Shum, Ping P ^b,d   Sun, Qizhen ^e,f   Wei, Huifeng ^f,g   Tong, Weijun ^f,g   Woliński, Tomasz R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f Yangtze Optical Fiber and Cable Company Ltd (YOFC)   (China)

^g State Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber and Cable Manufacture Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Fabry Perot; optical interferometry; optical sensors; refractometer

Indexed keywords

EASY FABRICATION; FABRY-PEROT; FRINGE VISIBILITIES; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; HIGH FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; HOLLOW CORE FIBER; HOLLOW SILICA SPHERES; HOLLOW SPHERE; INTRINSIC FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; KEY FEATURE; LOW COSTS; LOW FREQUENCY MODULATION; LOW LOSS; LOW TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; REFLECTION SPECTRA; SENSOR HEAD;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL SENSORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; VISIBILITY;

SPHERES;

EID: 84859994858     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2167678     Document Type: Article

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