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Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers
A finite element analysis (FEA) model has been constructed to predict the thermo-fluidic and optical properties of a microstructure optical fiber (MOF) accounting for changes in external temperature, input water velocity and optical fiber geometry. Modeling a water laminar flow within a water channe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5512674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28788263 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma7117566 |
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author | Davies, Edward Christodoulides, Paul Florides, George Kalli, Kyriacos |
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description | A finite element analysis (FEA) model has been constructed to predict the thermo-fluidic and optical properties of a microstructure optical fiber (MOF) accounting for changes in external temperature, input water velocity and optical fiber geometry. Modeling a water laminar flow within a water channel has shown that the steady-state temperature is dependent on the water channel radius while independent of the input velocity. There is a critical channel radius below which the steady-state temperature of the water channel is constant, while above, the temperature decreases. However, the distance required to reach steady state within the water channel is dependent on both the input velocity and the channel radius. The MOF has been found capable of supporting multiple modes. Despite the large thermo-optic coefficient of water, the bound modes’ response to temperature was dominated by the thermo-optic coefficient of glass. This is attributed to the majority of the light being confined within the glass, which increased with increasing external temperature due to a larger difference in the refractive index between the glass core and the water channel. |
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spelling | pubmed-55126742017-07-28 Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers Davies, Edward Christodoulides, Paul Florides, George Kalli, Kyriacos Materials (Basel) Article A finite element analysis (FEA) model has been constructed to predict the thermo-fluidic and optical properties of a microstructure optical fiber (MOF) accounting for changes in external temperature, input water velocity and optical fiber geometry. Modeling a water laminar flow within a water channel has shown that the steady-state temperature is dependent on the water channel radius while independent of the input velocity. There is a critical channel radius below which the steady-state temperature of the water channel is constant, while above, the temperature decreases. However, the distance required to reach steady state within the water channel is dependent on both the input velocity and the channel radius. The MOF has been found capable of supporting multiple modes. Despite the large thermo-optic coefficient of water, the bound modes’ response to temperature was dominated by the thermo-optic coefficient of glass. This is attributed to the majority of the light being confined within the glass, which increased with increasing external temperature due to a larger difference in the refractive index between the glass core and the water channel. MDPI 2014-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5512674/ /pubmed/28788263 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma7117566 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Davies, Edward Christodoulides, Paul Florides, George Kalli, Kyriacos Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers |
title | Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers |
title_full | Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers |
title_fullStr | Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers |
title_full_unstemmed | Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers |
title_short | Microfluidic Flows and Heat Transfer and Their Influence on Optical Modes in Microstructure Fibers |
title_sort | microfluidic flows and heat transfer and their influence on optical modes in microstructure fibers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5512674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28788263 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma7117566 |
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