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Title: | Refractive index sensing using helical broken-circular-symmetry core microstructured optical fiber | Authors: | Cui, M Wang, Z Yu, C |
Issue Date: | Dec-2022 | Source: | Sensors, Dec. 2022, v. 22, no. 23, 9523 | Abstract: | Helical twist provides an additional degree of freedom for controlling light in optical waveguides, expanding their applications in sensing. In this paper, we propose a helical broken-circular-symmetry core microstructured optical fiber for refractive index sensing. The proposed fiber consists of pure silica and its noncircular helical core is formed by a broken air ring. By using finite element modeling combined with transformation optics, the modal characteristics of the fiber are investigated in detail. The results show that for the core located at the fiber center, the confinement loss of fundamental core modes increases with twist rate, whereas for a sufficiently large core offset the modes can be well confined owing to the twist-induced light guidance mechanism, showing decreases with rising twist rate in the loss spectra. Moreover, we have found that for large twist rates and core offsets, resonant peaks occur at different twist rates due to the couplings between the fundamental core modes and the highly leaky modes created by the helical structure. The refractive index sensing performance is also studied and the obtained results show that the proposed fiber has great potential in fiber sensing. | Keywords: | Fiber sensing Helical core fiber Microstructured optical fiber |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | Sensors | EISSN: | 1424-8220 | DOI: | 10.3390/s22239523 | Rights: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Cui M, Wang Z, Yu C. Refractive Index Sensing Using Helical Broken-Circular-Symmetry Core Microstructured Optical Fiber. Sensors. 2022; 22(23):9523 is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239523. |
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