Photonic Crystal Fiber Gas Sensor
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 16670
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermofluids; mine ventilation; CFD in mining; fibre optic sensing; gas management systems
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Dear Colleagues,
The optical and geometrical uniqueness of photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) offers a new alternative in sensing, especially in gas sensing applications. The air holes of claddings and the core of PCFs open up new opportunities for exploiting the interaction of light with gases via evanescent field effects. The different arrangements of the air holes give a high range of design flexibility to build different PCFs (i.e., hollow-core PCF, microstructure core PCF, suspended core PCF, solid core PCF, kagome PCF) that diverse the gas sensing application with optical fibres. In addition to using direct light gas overlap in the evanescent field, PCFs are being tested for different new gas sensing techniques, such as long period grating in PCF, graphene-coated tapered PCF interferometers, and pulsed photothermal interferometers. These continuous investigations are improving the performance of PCF gas sensors and establishing different application fields.
This Special Issue will focus on the latest developments of gas sensing with PCFs, covering recent technological improvements and emerging applications.
We hope that this issue will provide a useful reference and that it will encourage further research on novel technologies and sensing devices with PCFs. Topics covered include but are not limited to:
- Modeling and numerical simulation of PCF gas sensors;
- Fabrication technologies of PCF gas sensors;
- Design, fabrication, and characterization of PCFs for gas sensing;
- New concept or approach of gas sensing with PCFs;
- Review of PCF gas sensing techniques and developments;
- Improving the sensitivity and response time of PCF gas sensors;
- Hollow core PCF-based gas sensing;
- PCF grating for gas sensing;
- Coating in PCF for gas sensing;
- Gas flow simulation in PCF.
Dr. Saiied Aminossadati
Mr. Md. Masum Billah
Guest Editors
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