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Filling Technologies of Photonic Crystal Fibers and Their Applications

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In this chapter, we shortly review the filling technologies of photonic crystal fibers (PCFs), including the selectively filling method by collapsing air holes, by splicing to a SMF with a lateral offset, and by femtosecond (fs) laser micromachining. Moreover, we demonstrate their applications in optical fiber devices, including a partially liquid-filled hollow-core PCF polarizer, a fiber in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed by selective infiltration of two air holes in PCF, and an embedded coupler based on selectively infiltrated PCF. For the applications in optical fiber temperature sensors, we demonstrate temperature sensors based on an alcohol-filled PCF Sagnac loop interferometers, temperature sensors with excellent temporal stability based on PCF with two infiltrated air holes, and a selectively infiltrated PCF with ultrahigh temperature sensitivity. Further, for the applications in gas sensors, we demonstrate a PCF loop mirror-based chemical vapor sensor, a chemical vapor sensor based on a simplified hollow-core PCF, and a hydrogen sensor based on selectively infiltrated PCF with Pt-loaded WO3 coating and discuss their sensing mechanisms. Finally, we will demonstrate a passively mode-locked fiber laser based on a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber filled with few-layered graphene oxide solution.

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    Chun-Liu Zhao & D. N. Wang

  2. Advanced Fiber Devices and Systems Group, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (MoE), Department of Optical Science and Engineering Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Limin Xiao

  3. Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Limin Xiao

  4. Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Ultra-Precision Optical Manufacturing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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Zhao, CL., Wang, D.N., Xiao, L. (2018). Filling Technologies of Photonic Crystal Fibers and Their Applications. In: Peng, GD. (eds) Handbook of Optical Fibers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1477-2_13-1

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