Recent advancement of anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for sensing applications

• Main Authors: Ni, Wenjun, Yang, Chunyong, Luo, Yiyang, Xia, Ran, Lu, Ping, Hu, Dora Juan Juan, Danto, Sylvain, Shum, Perry Ping, Wei, Lei
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Specialty Fiber; Anti-resonant Effect
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151069
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Specialty fibers have enabled a wide range of sensing applications. Particularly, with the recent advancement of anti-resonant effects, specialty fibers with hollow structures offer a unique sensing platform to achieve highly accurate and ultra-compact fiber optic sensors with large measurement ranges. This review presents an overview of recent progress in anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for sensing applications. Both regular and irregular-shaped fibers and their performance in various sensing scenarios are summarized. Finally, the challenges and possible solutions are briefly presented with some perspectives toward the future development of anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for advanced sensing.