Handbook of Optical Fibers
By Gang-Ding Peng
By Gang-Ding Peng
Contents
Volume 1
Part I Optical Fiber for Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Single-Mode Fibers for High Speed and Long-Haul
Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
John D. Downie, Ming-Jun Li, and Sergejs Makovejs
2 Multimode Fibers for Data Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Xin Chen, Scott R. Bickham, John S. Abbott, J. Doug Coleman,
and Ming-Jun Li
3 Multi-core Fibers for Space Division Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Tetsuya Hayashi
4 Optical Coherent Detection and Digital Signal Processing of
Channel Impairments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Ezra Ip
Part II Solitons and NonlinearWaves in Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
5 A Brief History of Fiber-Optic Soliton Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Fedor Mitschke
6 Perturbations of Solitons in Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Theodoros P. Horikis and Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis
7 Emission of Dispersive Waves from Solitons in Axially Varying
Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
A. Kudlinski, A. Mussot, Matteo Conforti, and D. V. Skryabin
8 Nonlinear Waves in Multimode Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
I. S. Chekhovskoy, O. S. Sidelnikov, A. A. Reduyk,
A. M. Rubenchik, O. V. Shtyrina, M. P. Fedoruk, S. K. Turitsyn,
E. A. Zlobina, S. I. Kablukov, S. A. Babin, K. Krupa, V. Couderc,
A. Tonello, A. Barthélémy, G. Millot, and S. Wabnitz
9 Shock Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Stefano Trillo and Matteo Conforti
10 A Variety of Dynamical Settings in Dual-Core
Nonlinear Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Boris A. Malomed
Part III Optical Fiber Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
11 Advanced Nano-engineered Glass-Based Optical Fibers for
Photonics Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
M. C. Paul, S. Das, A. Dhar, D. Dutta, P. H. Reddy, M. Pal,
and A. V. Kir’yanov
12 Fabrication of Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Muhammad Rosdi Abu Hassan
13 Optimized Fabrication of Thulium Doped Silica Optical Fiber
Using MCVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
S. Z. Muhamad Yassin, Nasr Y. M. Omar,
and Hairul Azhar Bin Abdul Rashid
14 Microfiber: Physics and Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Horng Sheng Lin and Zulfadzli Yusoff
15 Flat Fibers: Fabrication and Modal Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Ghafour Amouzad Mahdiraji, Katrina D. Dambul, Soo Yong Poh,
and Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan
16 3D Silica Lithography for Future Optical Fiber Fabrication . . . . . . 637
Gang-Ding Peng, Yanhua Luo, Jianzhong Zhang, Jianxiang Wen,
Yushi Chu, Kevin Cook, and John Canning
Part IV Active Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
17 Rare-Earth-Doped Laser Fiber Fabrication Using Vapor
Deposition Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Sonja Unger, Florian Lindner, Claudia Aichele, and Kay Schuster
18 Powder Process for Fabrication of Rare Earth-Doped Fibers
for Lasers and Amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Valerio Romano, Sönke Pilz, and Hossein Najafi
19 Progress in Mid-infrared Fiber Source Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Darren D. Hudson, Alexander Fuerbach, and Stuart D. Jackson
20 Crystalline Fibers for Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
Sheng-Lung Huang
21 Cladding-Pumped Multicore Fiber Amplifier for Space
Division Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Kazi S. Abedin
22 Optical Amplifiers for Mode Division Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849
Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam, and David J. Richardson
Volume 2
Part V Special Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875
23 Optical Fibers for High-Power Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877
Xia Yu, Biao Sun, Jiaqi Luo, and Elizabeth Lee
24 Multicore Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895
Ming Tang
25 Polymer Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
Kishore Bhowmik and Gang-Ding Peng
26 Optical Fibers in Terahertz Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019
Georges Humbert
27 Optical Fibers for Biomedical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069
Gerd Keiser
Part VI Optical Fiber Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097
28 Basics of Optical Fiber Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
Mingjie Ding, Desheng Fan, Wenyu Wang, Yanhua Luo, and
Gang-Ding Peng
29 Measurement of Active Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139
Gui Xiao, Ghazal Fallah Tafti, Amirhassan Zareanborji,
Anahita Ghaznavi, and Qiancheng Zhao
30 Characterization of Specialty Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177
Quan Chai, Yushi Chu, and Jianzhong Zhang
31 Characterization of Distributed Birefringence
in Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227
Yongkang Dong, Lei Teng, Hongying Zhang, Taofei Jiang,
and Dengwang Zhou
32 Characterization of Distributed Polarization-Mode Coupling
for Fiber Coils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259
Jun Yang, Zhangjun Yu, and Libo Yuan
Part VII Optical Fiber Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299
33 Materials Development for Advanced Optical Fiber Sensors
and Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301
Peter Dragic and John Ballato
34 Optoelectronic Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335
Lei Wei
35 Fiber Grating Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351
Christophe Caucheteur and Tuan Guo
36 CO2-Laser-Inscribed Long Period Fiber Gratings: From
Fabrication to Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379
Yiping Wang and Jun He
37 Micro-/Nano-optical Fiber Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425
Fei Xu
Part VIII Optical Fiber Device Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465
38 Measurement of Optical Fiber Grating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467
Zhiqiang Song, Jian Guo, Haifeng Qi, and Weitao Wang
39 Measurement of Optical Fiber Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1485
Yanhua Luo, Binbin Yan, Jianxiang Wen, Jianzhong Zhang,
and Gang-Ding Peng
40 Measurement of Optical Fiber Laser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1529
Haifeng Qi, Weitao Wang, Jian Guo, and Zhiqiang Song
Volume 3
Part IX Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557
41 Distributed Rayleigh Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559
Xinyu Fan
42 Distributed Raman Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609
Marcelo A. Soto and Fabrizio Di Pasquale
43 Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Time-Domain Techniques . . . . . . . . . 1663
Marcelo A. Soto
44 Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Frequency-Domain
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755
Aleksander Wosniok
45 Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Correlation-Domain
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781
Weiwen Zou, Xin Long, and Jianping Chen
Part X Optical Fiber Sensors for Industrial Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1813
46 Optical Fiber Sensors for Remote Condition Monitoring of
Industrial Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1815
Tong Sun OBE, M. Fabian, Y. Chen, M. Vidakovic, S. Javdani,
K. T. V. Grattan, J. Carlton, C. Gerada, and L. Brun
47 Optical Fiber Sensor Network and Industrial Applications . . . . . . . 1839
Qizhen Sun, Zhijun Yan, Deming Liu, and Lin Zhang
48 Fiber Optic Sensors for Coal Mine Hazard Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 1885
Tongyu Liu
49 Optical Fiber Sensors in Ionizing Radiation Environments . . . . . . . 1913
Dan Sporea
Part XI Polymer Optical Fiber Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1955
50 Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors and Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957
Ricardo Oliveira, Filipa Sequeira, Lúcia Bilro, and
Rogério Nogueira
51 Solid Core Single-Mode Polymer Fiber Gratings and Sensors . . . . . 1997
Kishore Bhowmik, Gang Ding Peng, Eliathamby Ambikairajah,
and Ginu Rajan
52 Microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber Gratings and Sensors . . . . 2037
Getinet Woyessa, Andrea Fasano, and Christos Markos
53 Polymer Fiber Sensors for Structural and Civil Engineering
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2079
Sascha Liehr
Part XII Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2115
54 Photonic Microcells for Sensing Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2117
Chao Wang, Wei Jin, Hoi Lut Ho, and Fan Yang
55 Filling Technologies of Photonic Crystal Fibers and Their
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2139
Chun-Liu Zhao, D. N. Wang, and Limin Xiao
56 Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Grating Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201
Changrui Liao, Feng Zhu, and Chupao Lin
57 Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Interferometer Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . 2231
Min Wang, Jiankun Peng, Weijia Wang, and Minghong Yang
Part XIII Optical FiberMicrofluidic Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281
58 Optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors Based
on Opto-physical Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2283
Chen-Lin Zhang, Chao-Yang Gong, Yuan Gong, Yun-Jiang Rao,
and Gang-Ding Peng
59 Micro-/Nano-optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2319
Lei Zhang
60 All Optical Fiber Optofluidic or Ferrofluidic Microsensors
Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Micromachining . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2351
Hai Xiao, Lei Yuan, Baokai Cheng, and Yang Song
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389
Part I Optical Fiber for Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Single-Mode Fibers for High Speed and Long-Haul
Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
John D. Downie, Ming-Jun Li, and Sergejs Makovejs
2 Multimode Fibers for Data Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Xin Chen, Scott R. Bickham, John S. Abbott, J. Doug Coleman,
and Ming-Jun Li
3 Multi-core Fibers for Space Division Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Tetsuya Hayashi
4 Optical Coherent Detection and Digital Signal Processing of
Channel Impairments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Ezra Ip
Part II Solitons and NonlinearWaves in Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
5 A Brief History of Fiber-Optic Soliton Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Fedor Mitschke
6 Perturbations of Solitons in Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Theodoros P. Horikis and Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis
7 Emission of Dispersive Waves from Solitons in Axially Varying
Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
A. Kudlinski, A. Mussot, Matteo Conforti, and D. V. Skryabin
8 Nonlinear Waves in Multimode Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
I. S. Chekhovskoy, O. S. Sidelnikov, A. A. Reduyk,
A. M. Rubenchik, O. V. Shtyrina, M. P. Fedoruk, S. K. Turitsyn,
E. A. Zlobina, S. I. Kablukov, S. A. Babin, K. Krupa, V. Couderc,
A. Tonello, A. Barthélémy, G. Millot, and S. Wabnitz
9 Shock Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Stefano Trillo and Matteo Conforti
10 A Variety of Dynamical Settings in Dual-Core
Nonlinear Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Boris A. Malomed
Part III Optical Fiber Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
11 Advanced Nano-engineered Glass-Based Optical Fibers for
Photonics Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
M. C. Paul, S. Das, A. Dhar, D. Dutta, P. H. Reddy, M. Pal,
and A. V. Kir’yanov
12 Fabrication of Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Muhammad Rosdi Abu Hassan
13 Optimized Fabrication of Thulium Doped Silica Optical Fiber
Using MCVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
S. Z. Muhamad Yassin, Nasr Y. M. Omar,
and Hairul Azhar Bin Abdul Rashid
14 Microfiber: Physics and Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Horng Sheng Lin and Zulfadzli Yusoff
15 Flat Fibers: Fabrication and Modal Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Ghafour Amouzad Mahdiraji, Katrina D. Dambul, Soo Yong Poh,
and Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan
16 3D Silica Lithography for Future Optical Fiber Fabrication . . . . . . 637
Gang-Ding Peng, Yanhua Luo, Jianzhong Zhang, Jianxiang Wen,
Yushi Chu, Kevin Cook, and John Canning
Part IV Active Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
17 Rare-Earth-Doped Laser Fiber Fabrication Using Vapor
Deposition Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Sonja Unger, Florian Lindner, Claudia Aichele, and Kay Schuster
18 Powder Process for Fabrication of Rare Earth-Doped Fibers
for Lasers and Amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Valerio Romano, Sönke Pilz, and Hossein Najafi
19 Progress in Mid-infrared Fiber Source Development . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Darren D. Hudson, Alexander Fuerbach, and Stuart D. Jackson
20 Crystalline Fibers for Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
Sheng-Lung Huang
21 Cladding-Pumped Multicore Fiber Amplifier for Space
Division Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Kazi S. Abedin
22 Optical Amplifiers for Mode Division Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849
Yongmin Jung, Shaif-Ul Alam, and David J. Richardson
Volume 2
Part V Special Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875
23 Optical Fibers for High-Power Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877
Xia Yu, Biao Sun, Jiaqi Luo, and Elizabeth Lee
24 Multicore Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895
Ming Tang
25 Polymer Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
Kishore Bhowmik and Gang-Ding Peng
26 Optical Fibers in Terahertz Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019
Georges Humbert
27 Optical Fibers for Biomedical Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069
Gerd Keiser
Part VI Optical Fiber Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097
28 Basics of Optical Fiber Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
Mingjie Ding, Desheng Fan, Wenyu Wang, Yanhua Luo, and
Gang-Ding Peng
29 Measurement of Active Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139
Gui Xiao, Ghazal Fallah Tafti, Amirhassan Zareanborji,
Anahita Ghaznavi, and Qiancheng Zhao
30 Characterization of Specialty Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177
Quan Chai, Yushi Chu, and Jianzhong Zhang
31 Characterization of Distributed Birefringence
in Optical Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227
Yongkang Dong, Lei Teng, Hongying Zhang, Taofei Jiang,
and Dengwang Zhou
32 Characterization of Distributed Polarization-Mode Coupling
for Fiber Coils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259
Jun Yang, Zhangjun Yu, and Libo Yuan
Part VII Optical Fiber Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299
33 Materials Development for Advanced Optical Fiber Sensors
and Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301
Peter Dragic and John Ballato
34 Optoelectronic Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335
Lei Wei
35 Fiber Grating Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351
Christophe Caucheteur and Tuan Guo
36 CO2-Laser-Inscribed Long Period Fiber Gratings: From
Fabrication to Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379
Yiping Wang and Jun He
37 Micro-/Nano-optical Fiber Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425
Fei Xu
Part VIII Optical Fiber Device Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465
38 Measurement of Optical Fiber Grating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1467
Zhiqiang Song, Jian Guo, Haifeng Qi, and Weitao Wang
39 Measurement of Optical Fiber Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1485
Yanhua Luo, Binbin Yan, Jianxiang Wen, Jianzhong Zhang,
and Gang-Ding Peng
40 Measurement of Optical Fiber Laser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1529
Haifeng Qi, Weitao Wang, Jian Guo, and Zhiqiang Song
Volume 3
Part IX Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557
41 Distributed Rayleigh Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559
Xinyu Fan
42 Distributed Raman Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609
Marcelo A. Soto and Fabrizio Di Pasquale
43 Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Time-Domain Techniques . . . . . . . . . 1663
Marcelo A. Soto
44 Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Frequency-Domain
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755
Aleksander Wosniok
45 Distributed Brillouin Sensing: Correlation-Domain
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1781
Weiwen Zou, Xin Long, and Jianping Chen
Part X Optical Fiber Sensors for Industrial Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 1813
46 Optical Fiber Sensors for Remote Condition Monitoring of
Industrial Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1815
Tong Sun OBE, M. Fabian, Y. Chen, M. Vidakovic, S. Javdani,
K. T. V. Grattan, J. Carlton, C. Gerada, and L. Brun
47 Optical Fiber Sensor Network and Industrial Applications . . . . . . . 1839
Qizhen Sun, Zhijun Yan, Deming Liu, and Lin Zhang
48 Fiber Optic Sensors for Coal Mine Hazard Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . 1885
Tongyu Liu
49 Optical Fiber Sensors in Ionizing Radiation Environments . . . . . . . 1913
Dan Sporea
Part XI Polymer Optical Fiber Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1955
50 Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors and Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1957
Ricardo Oliveira, Filipa Sequeira, Lúcia Bilro, and
Rogério Nogueira
51 Solid Core Single-Mode Polymer Fiber Gratings and Sensors . . . . . 1997
Kishore Bhowmik, Gang Ding Peng, Eliathamby Ambikairajah,
and Ginu Rajan
52 Microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber Gratings and Sensors . . . . 2037
Getinet Woyessa, Andrea Fasano, and Christos Markos
53 Polymer Fiber Sensors for Structural and Civil Engineering
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2079
Sascha Liehr
Part XII Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2115
54 Photonic Microcells for Sensing Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2117
Chao Wang, Wei Jin, Hoi Lut Ho, and Fan Yang
55 Filling Technologies of Photonic Crystal Fibers and Their
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2139
Chun-Liu Zhao, D. N. Wang, and Limin Xiao
56 Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Grating Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201
Changrui Liao, Feng Zhu, and Chupao Lin
57 Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Interferometer Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . 2231
Min Wang, Jiankun Peng, Weijia Wang, and Minghong Yang
Part XIII Optical FiberMicrofluidic Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281
58 Optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors Based
on Opto-physical Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2283
Chen-Lin Zhang, Chao-Yang Gong, Yuan Gong, Yun-Jiang Rao,
and Gang-Ding Peng
59 Micro-/Nano-optical Fiber Microfluidic Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2319
Lei Zhang
60 All Optical Fiber Optofluidic or Ferrofluidic Microsensors
Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Micromachining . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2351
Hai Xiao, Lei Yuan, Baokai Cheng, and Yang Song
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389