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

doi:10.3390/photonics8040128

Photonics (Apr 2021)

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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8040128
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 4
p. 128

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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.

Published in Photonics

ISSN: 2304-6732 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics

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