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Introduction
Published in Marcelo Martins Werneck, Regina Célia da Silva Barros Allil, Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors, 2019
In 2001, the first microstructured POF (mPOF) was reported by the University of Sydney Optical Fibre Technology Centre (OFTC) at the ICPOF of that year, held in Amsterdam. This work sought to combine the flexibility of microstructured optical fiber designs, which had recently begun to be explored in silica, with all the advantages of using polymer fibers. The work was supported briefly by Redfern Polymer Optics, and subsequently by their spin-off, Cactus Fibres. In 2004, a grant from the Australian Research Council funded the purchase of a specialized draw tower, around which an mPOF fabrication facility was established. MPOF research focused on the traditional datacoms applications, as well as sensing.
Microstructured optical fibers
Published in John P. Dakin, Robert G. W. Brown, Handbook of Optoelectronics, 2017
Jesper Lægsgaard, Anders Bjarklev, Tanya Monro, Tanya Monro
In the mid-1990s, a new class of optical fibers emerged: the microstructured optical fiber (MOF) [1,2]. In these fibers, light is guided by a complex microstructure that often, but not always, includes air holes running along the fiber length. Due to their enormous scientific and technological potential, these fibers have been a major field of study in academic and industrial photonic research during the past two decades. This chapter provides a brief overview of the major types and applications of MOFs, along with a short discussion on their modeling and fabrication.
Double-sided photonic crystal fiber (PCF) temperature and refractive index (RI) sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
Published in Instrumentation Science & Technology, 2023
Jia-Kai Wang, Yu Ying, Zhi-jun Gao, Ke Xu, Qi Qi, Guang-yuan Si
Yang proposed an SPR sensor based on D-shaped microstructured optical fiber (MOF).[12] The D-shaped flat surface coated with a gold layer is in direct contact with the analyte as a sensing channel of RI, and one of the air holes near the fiber core is filled with chloroform to detect temperature. The results showed that the sensitivities of temperature and RI reaches maximum values of 2 nm/°C and 2400 nm/RIU and realizes the simultaneous measurement of multiple parameters without matrix equations.