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ArticleScientific reports2021

Engineering nanoparticle features to tune Rayleigh scattering in nanoparticles-doped optical fibers.

Victor Fuertes, Nicolas Grégoire, Philippe Labranche, Stéphane Gagnon, Ruohui Wang, Yannick Ledemi, Sophie LaRochelle, Younès Messaddeq

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Victor FuertesCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada. victor.fuertes-de-la-llave.1@ulaval.ca.
Nicolas GrégoireCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada.
Philippe LabrancheCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada.
Stéphane GagnonCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada.
Ruohui WangCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada.
Yannick LedemiCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada.
Sophie LaRochelleCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada.
Younès MessaddeqCentre D'optique, Photonique Et Laser, Université Laval, 2375 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1 V 0A6, Canada.
Université Laval · CA

Funding

Canada First Research Excellence Fund Sentinel North Excellence FellowshipCanada research chair Advanced photonic TechnologiesCanadian Excellence Research Chair program Photonics Innovationsthe Fonds de Recherche Québecois sur la Nature et les Technologies COPL strategic cluster grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rayleigh scattering enhanced nanoparticles-doped optical fibers are highly promising for distributed sensing applications, however, the high optical losses induced by that scattering enhancement restrict considerably their sensing distance to few meters. Fabrication of long-range distributed optical fiber sensors based on this technology remains a major challenge in optical fiber community. In this work, it is reported the fabrication of low-loss Ca-based nanoparticles doped silica fibers with tunable Rayleigh scattering for long-range distributed sensing. This is enabled by tailoring nanoparticle features such as particle distribution size, morphology and density in the core of optical fibers through preform and fiber fabrication process. Consequently, fibers with tunable enhanced backscattering in the range 25.9-44.9 dB, with respect to a SMF-28 fiber, are attained along with the lowest two-way optical losses, 0.1-8.7 dB/m, reported so far for Rayleigh scattering enhanced nanoparticles-doped optical fibers. Therefore, the suitability of Ca-based nanoparticles-doped optical fibers for distributed sensing over longer distances, from 5 m to more than 200 m, becomes possible. This study opens a new path for future works in the field of distributed sensing, since these findings may be applied to other nanoparticles-doped optical fibers, allowing the tailoring of nanoparticle properties, which broadens future potential applications of this technology.

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PMID33907246
PMCPMC8079377
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