Hybrid photonic crystal fiber for highly sensitive temperature measurement

• Main Authors: Xu, Zhilin, Li, Baocheng, Hu, Dora Juan Juan, Wu, Zhifang, Ertman, Slawomir, Wolinski, Tomasz, Tong, Weijun, Shum, Perry Ping
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Fiber Optics Sensors; Liquid Crystal
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141052
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A hybrid photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is proposed and demonstrated for highly sensitive temperature measurement. The hybrid PCF is formed by selectively infiltrating liquid crystal 5CB into the first ring of air holes around one silica core of a twin-core PCF (TCPCF). In the modified TCPCF, one sili...