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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Arc-Induced Long Period Gratings from Standard to Polarization-Maintaining and Photonic Crystal Fibers.

Flavio Esposito, Rajeev Ranjan, Stefania Campopiano, Agostino Iadicicco

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Flavio EspositoDepartment of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Centro Direzionale Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy. flavio.esposito@uniparthenope.it.ORCID 0000-0003-1187-5825
Rajeev RanjanDepartment of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Centro Direzionale Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy. rajeev.ranjan@na.imm.cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0002-4131-6656
Stefania CampopianoDepartment of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Centro Direzionale Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy. campopiano@uniparthenope.it.
Agostino IadiciccoDepartment of Engineering, University of Naples "Parthenope", Centro Direzionale Isola C4, 80143 Napoli, Italy. iadicicco@uniparthenope.it.

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Abstract

In this work, we report about our recent results concerning the fabrication of Long Period Grating (LPG) sensors in several optical fibers, through the Electric Arc Discharge (EAD) technique. In particular, the following silica fibers with both different dopants and geometrical structures are considered: standard Ge-doped, photosensitive B/Ge codoped, P-doped, pure-silica core with F-doped cladding, Panda type Polarization-maintaining, and Hollow core Photonic crystal fiber. An adaptive platform was developed and the appropriate "recipe" was identified for each fiber, in terms of both arc discharge parameters and setup arrangement, for manufacturing LPGs with strong and narrow attenuation bands, low insertion losses, and short length. As the fabricated devices have appealing features from the application point of view, the sensitivity characteristics towards changes in different external perturbations (i.e., surrounding refractive index, temperature, and strain) are investigated and compared, highlighting the effects of different fiber composition and structure.

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long period gratingsoptical fibersoptical fiber sensorsrefractive index sensorssensors fabricationstrain sensorstemperature sensors

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PMID29558407
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