Title : 
Bragg grating in a Fresnel fibre with a water-core
         
        
            Author : 
Martelli, Cicero ; Canning, John ; Groothoff, Nathaniel
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Opt. Fibre Technol. Centre, Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper demonstrates the first air pure-silica photonic crystal Fresnel fibre with a water core and a Bragg grating, which opens up plenty of possibilities for liquid and gas sensing, and low cost in-fibre nonlinear devices fabrication.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Bragg gratings; fibre optic sensors; optical fibre fabrication; photonic crystals; water; Bragg grating; SiO2; gas sensing; liquid sensing; photonic crystal Fresnel fibre; water core; Absorption; Australia; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber testing; Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Scanning electron microscopy; Strain measurement;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-9217-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548282