Polarization-maintaining microfiber-based evanescent-wave sensors

Li Jie; Li Meng-Meng; Sun Li-Peng; Fan Peng-Cheng; Ran Yang; Jin Long; Guan Bai-Ou

doi:10.7498/aps.66.074209

Abstract

In recent years, polarization-maintaining (PM) microfibers have attracted much research attention mostly due to their ultra-high birefringence and large evanescent field effect. This article starts from introduction of the structures, fabrication methods, and mode characteristics of PM microfibers. Different previously-implemented PM microfiber sensors have been presented. The two polarization modes may have different responses on changes of external parameters for PM microfiber, which allows fabrication of polarization-related devices, such as interferometers or gratings. Some sensing characteristics, such as extremely-high refractive index sensitivity and/or temperature-independent response, have been demonstrated. The sensing applications including detection of refractive index, humidity, magnetic field and specific DNA molecular have been described in detail. This article should be helpful for future development of PM micro/nano fibers and the related sensors.

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Authors and contacts

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Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

Corresponding author: Guan Bai-Ou, tguanbo@jnu.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (Grant No. 61225023), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61575083, 61235005), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2014A030313364).

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