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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A Refractive Index Sensor Based on Spectral Interrogation of a Long Tapered Side-Hole Optical Fiber.

Rafał A Kosturek, Michał Dudek, Leszek R Jaroszewicz

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Rafał A KosturekInstitute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, 2 gen. Sylwestra Kaliskiego St., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7688-715X
Michał DudekInstitute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, 2 gen. Sylwestra Kaliskiego St., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7766-0969
Leszek R JaroszewiczInstitute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, 2 gen. Sylwestra Kaliskiego St., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-8838-5846

Funding

Military University of Technology in Warsaw UGB 531-000031-W900-22
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article describes an external refractive index (RI) sensor based on a spectral analysis of the light transmission through a long tapered side-hole optical fiber (S-H OF). A section of the S-H OF was fusion-spliced with SMFs at both ends and connected to a supercontinuum source at the input and an optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) at the output. To investigate the effect of the external RI on the spectral characteristics, immersion liquids with refractive indices in the ranges of 1.32-1.35 and 1.37-1.42, with increments of 0.01, were used. Power loss measurements were carried out for each liquid in two wavelength ranges: 600-1200 nm and 1200-1800 nm. The highest sensitivity obtained in this study was 622 ± 11 nm/RIU in the near-infrared region. This result highlights the suitability of longtapered S-H OFs for spectral-interrogation-based RI sensing, offering a promising yet simpler alternative to more complex interferometric or plasmonic configurations.

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fiber optic sensorimmersion liquidrefractive indexside-hole optical fibertapered optical fiber

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PMID40871780
PMCPMC12389741

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