Towards distributed particle sensing using a few-mode exposed-core optical fibre with a spatially referenced evanescent field

Peng, Lu; Nguyen, Linh Viet; Riesen, Nicolas; Li, Jiawen; Otten, Dale; Lancaster, David G.; McLaughlin, Robert A.; Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike; Warren-Smith, Stephen C.

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Towards distributed particle sensing using a few-mode exposed-core optical fibre with a spatially referenced evanescent field

Date

2020

Authors

McLaughlin, Robert A.

Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike

Warren-Smith, Stephen C.

Abstract

We propose a two-dimensional distributed sensing scheme using few-mode exposed-core fibre and optical frequency domain reflectometry. This scheme aims to measure the size and position of particles using the evanescent field of different guided modes.