Recent Advancement of Anti-Resonant Hollow-Core Fibers for Sensing Applications
Wenjun Ni,
Chunyong Yang,
Yiyang Luo,
Ran Xia,
Ping Lu,
Dora Juan Juan Hu,
Sylvain Danto,
Perry Ping Shum,
Lei Wei
Affiliations
Wenjun Ni
Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Wireless Communications, Hubei Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Internet of Things Technology, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, China
Chunyong Yang
Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Wireless Communications, Hubei Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Internet of Things Technology, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, China
Yiyang Luo
Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology & Systems (Ministry of Education), Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Ran Xia
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Ping Lu
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Dora Juan Juan Hu
Institute for Infocomm Research, 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01 Connexis, Singapore 138632, Singapore
Sylvain Danto
CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, ICMCB, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France
Perry Ping Shum
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Lei Wei
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Specialty fibers have enabled a wide range of sensing applications. Particularly, with the recent advancement of anti-resonant effects, specialty fibers with hollow structures offer a unique sensing platform to achieve highly accurate and ultra-compact fiber optic sensors with large measurement ranges. This review presents an overview of recent progress in anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for sensing applications. Both regular and irregular-shaped fibers and their performance in various sensing scenarios are summarized. Finally, the challenges and possible solutions are briefly presented with some perspectives toward the future development of anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for advanced sensing.
