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Lab-on-fiber technology: a new avenue for optical nanosensors
The "lab-on-fiber" concept envisions novel and highly functionalized technological platforms completely integrated in a single optical fiber that would allow the development of advanced devices, components and sub-systems to be incorporated in modern optical systems for communication and sensing applications. The realization of integrated optical fiber devices requires that several structures and materials at nano- and micro-scale are constructed, embedded and connected all together to provide the necessary physical connections and light-matter interactions. This paper reviews the strategies, the main achievements and related devices in the lab-on-fiber roadmap discussing perspectives and challenges that lie ahead
Guided resonances in photonic quasicrystals
In this paper, we report on the first evidence of guided resonances (GRs) in
aperiodically-ordered photonic crystals, tied to the concept of "quasicrystals"
in solid-state physics. Via a full-wave numerical study of the transmittance
response and the modal structure of a photonic quasicrystal (PQC) slab based on
a representative aperiodic geometry (Ammann-Beenker octagonal tiling), we
demonstrate the possibility of exciting GR modes, and highlight similarities
and differences with the periodic case. In particular, we show that, as for the
periodic case, GRs arise from the coupling of the incident plane-wave with
degenerate modes of the PQC slab that exhibit a matching symmetry in the
spatial distribution, and can still be parameterized via a Fano-like model.
Besides the phenomenological implications, our results may provide new degrees
of freedom in the engineering of GRs, and pave the way for new developments and
applications.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Three figures added; Sec. 3.3
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Hybrid fiber grating cavity for multi-parametric sensing.
We propose an all-fiber hybrid cavity involving two unbalanced uniform fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) written at both sides of a tilted FBG (TFBG) to form an all-fiber interferometer. This configuration provides a wavelength gated reflection signal with interference fringes depending on the cavity features modulated by spectral dips associated to the wavelength dependent optical losses due to cladding mode coupling occurring along the TFBG. Such a robust structure preserves the advantages of uniform FBGs in terms of interrogation methods and allows the possibility of simultaneous physical and chemical sensing
Single and Multiple Phase Shifts Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings
The spectral behavior of single and multiple phase shifts tilted fiber Bragg gratings has been experimentally investigated. To this aim, a simple and cost-effective postprocessing technique based on local thermal treatment was used to create arbitrary phase shifts along the tilted grating structure. In particular, UV written tilted fiber Bragg gratings were treated by the electric arc discharge to erase the refractive index modulation in well-defined regions. We demonstrate that these defects give rise to interference pattern for all modes, and thus defect states can be achieved within all the attenuation bands, enabling a simple wavelength independent spectral tailoring of this class of devices
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