All-optical, all-fiber, thermal conductivity sensor for identificationand characterization of fluids

This paper presents a miniature, all-optical, thermal conductivity fiber-optic sensor, which can be applied to various fluid composition identification situations. The sensor is composed of a short section of highly absorbing fiber, which is configured as a Fabry-Perot interferometer. A Read More …

All-fiber micromachined microcell

This Letter presents an open-path, all-fiber microcell and a micromachining method for its production. The proposed micromachining method utilizes the selective etching of a purposely designed phosphorus-doped fiber that is spliced in between two standard lead-in fibers. Microcells with various Read More …

All-optical, thermo-optical path length modulation based on the vanadium-doped fibers

This paper presents an all-fiber, fully-optically controlled, optical-path length modulator based on highly absorbing optical fiber. The modulator utilizes a high-power 980 nm pump diode and a short section of vanadium-co-doped single mode fiber that is heated through absorption and Read More …

Microbend sensor structure for use in distributed and quasi-distributed sensor systems based on selective launching and filtering of the modes in graded index multimode fiber

This paper describes a novel optical fiber microbend sensor architecture which my be utilized in distributed and quasi-distributed measurement. The actual sensor element is graded index multimode fiber coupled to the measurand field through the usual microbend inducing structures. However, Read More …

Propagation of the fundamental mode in curved graded index multimode fiber and its application in sensor systems

A novel principle of light transmission through very small radius bend in optical fibers is presented. The potential applications of the proposed structure are fiber optic sensors and other fiber optic systems. The design makes use of graded index multimode Read More …