Continuous measurement of the hematocrit level in blood can potentially be performed using optical fibre sensors. The Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors are a promising candidate in this application. The most important step in the design of the sensor is design of the sensing interferometer. Adequate cavity length and high interference contrast are two most important requirements in this application. The design method of the sensing interferometer presented in this paper uses a Gaussian beam approximation. In order to verify the design, an optical fibre Fabry-Perot interferometer with adjustable cavity length was built. Its performance was tested, confirming validity of the design approach.
The photonic-crystal fibre with a suspended core was analyzed in order to explain possibilities of its using in investigation of electrooptic and magnetooptic effects occurring in the molecules of gas passed into air holes in the fibre. As results from numerical analysis, even 20% of electromagnetic optical energy can be propagating in the area of the air holes. The obtained results indicate the possibility of scanning the electrooptic and magnetooptic effects in photonic-crystal fibres with a suspended core in the case of considerable diminishing of the core (even below 1 μm) or in the case of light applying with its larger wavelengths.
We analyze coupling and propagation of light through a suspended-core microstructured optical fiber. It is experimentally demonstrated that light-coupling efficiency and mode distribution strongly depend on relative position of the fiber's core and a light beam and light polarization. The experimental results are supported with numerical simulations. The developed numerical model confirmed all the observed dependences.
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