Book description
Combining the positive characteristics of microfluidics and optics, microstructured optical fibres (MOFs) have revolutionized the field of optoelectronics. Tailored guiding, diffractive structures and photonic band-gap effects are used to produce fibres with highly specialised, complex structures, facilitating the development of novel kinds of optical fibre sensors and actuators.
Part One outlines the key materials and fabrication techniques used for microstructured optical fibres. Microfluidics and heat flows, MOF-based metamaterials, novel and liquid crystal infiltrated photonic crystal fibre (PCF) designs, MOFs filled with carbon nanotubes and melting of functional inorganic glasses inside PCFs are all reviewed. Part Two then goes on to investigate sensing and optofluidic applications, with the use of MOFs in structural sensing, sensing units and mechanical sensing explored in detail. PCF’s for switching applications are then discussed before the book concludes by reviewing MOFs for specific nucleic acid detection and resonant bio- and chemical sensing.
- Provides users with the necessary knowledge to successfully design and implement microstructured optical fibres for a broad range of uses
- Outlines techniques for developing both traditional and novel types of optical fibre
- Highlights the adaptability of microstructured optical fibres achieved via the use of optofluidics, sensors and actuators, by presenting a diverse selection of applications
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Related titles
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
- Preface
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Part One. Materials and fabrication of microstructured optical fibres
- 1. Microfluidics flow and heat transfer in microstructured fibers of circular and elliptical geometry
- 2. Drawn metamaterials
- 3. Liquid crystal-infiltrated photonic crystal fibres for switching applications
- 4. Microstructured optical fiber filled with carbon nanotubes
- 5. Molten glass-infiltrated photonic crystal fibers
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Part Two. Sensing and optofluidic applications
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6. Microstructured optical fibre-based sensors for structural health monitoring applications
- 6.1. Introduction to structural health monitoring applications and fibre Bragg grating sensors
- 6.2. Microstructured optical fibres for temperature-insensitive pressure and transverse strain sensing
- 6.3. Structural health monitoring-related applications of the butterfly microstructured optical fibres
- 6.4. Conclusion and trends
- 7. Liquid crystals infiltrated photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for electromagnetic field sensing
- 8. Polymer micro and microstructured fiber Bragg gratings: recent advancements and applications
- 9. Functionalized microstructured optical fibers for specific nucleic acid detection
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10. Photonic bandgap fibers—a roadway to all-fiber refractometer systems for monitoring of liquid analytes
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Resonant sensing of liquid-core fiber sensors—a theoretical foundation
- 10.3. Capillary fiber sensors
- 10.4. Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber sensors
- 10.5. Liquid-core Bragg fiber sensors
- 10.6. Solid-core photonic bandgap Bragg fiber spectrometers
- 10.7. Hollow-core Bragg fiber sensor interrogated with all-fiber spectrometer—an all-fiber spectroscopic system
- 10.8. Examples of practical applications of the liquid-core Bragg fiber sensors
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6. Microstructured optical fibre-based sensors for structural health monitoring applications
- Index
Product information
- Title: Optofluidics, Sensors and Actuators in Microstructured Optical Fibers
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2015
- Publisher(s): Woodhead Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782423478
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