A Review of Multimode Interference in Tapered Optical Fibers and Related Applications

In recent years, tapered optical fibers (TOFs) have attracted increasing interest and developed into a range of devices used in many practical applications ranging from optical communication, sensing to optical manipulation and high-Q resonators. Compared with conventional optical fibers, TOFs posse...

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Autores principales: Wang, Pengfei, Zhao, Haiyan, Wang, Xianfan, Farrell, Gerald, Brambilla, Gilberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5877316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29538333
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18030858
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author Wang, Pengfei
Zhao, Haiyan
Wang, Xianfan
Farrell, Gerald
Brambilla, Gilberto
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description In recent years, tapered optical fibers (TOFs) have attracted increasing interest and developed into a range of devices used in many practical applications ranging from optical communication, sensing to optical manipulation and high-Q resonators. Compared with conventional optical fibers, TOFs possess a range of unique features, such as large evanescent field, strong optical confinement, mechanical flexibility and compactness. In this review, we critically summarize the multimode interference in TOFs and some of its applications with a focus on our research project undertaken at the Optoelectronics Research Centre of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.
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spelling pubmed-58773162018-04-09 A Review of Multimode Interference in Tapered Optical Fibers and Related Applications Wang, Pengfei Zhao, Haiyan Wang, Xianfan Farrell, Gerald Brambilla, Gilberto Sensors (Basel) Review In recent years, tapered optical fibers (TOFs) have attracted increasing interest and developed into a range of devices used in many practical applications ranging from optical communication, sensing to optical manipulation and high-Q resonators. Compared with conventional optical fibers, TOFs possess a range of unique features, such as large evanescent field, strong optical confinement, mechanical flexibility and compactness. In this review, we critically summarize the multimode interference in TOFs and some of its applications with a focus on our research project undertaken at the Optoelectronics Research Centre of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. MDPI 2018-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5877316/ /pubmed/29538333 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18030858 Text en © 2018 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 (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Pengfei
Zhao, Haiyan
Wang, Xianfan
Farrell, Gerald
Brambilla, Gilberto
A Review of Multimode Interference in Tapered Optical Fibers and Related Applications
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18030858
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