Temperature-independent refractometer based on a tapered photonic crystal fiber interferometer

• Main Authors: Ni, Kai, Chan, Chi Chiu, Dong, Xinyong, Poh, Chueh Loo, Li, Tao
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99820; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17729
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A temperature-independent refractometer by using a tapered photonic crystal fiber (PCF) based Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. It is fabricated by sandwiching a tapered PCF of 29 mm long between two standard single mode fibers (SMFs) with the fully colla...