Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Highly deformable optical fibers made of polyurethane: OAM generation, tunable metamaterials and sensors
Published 2017Polyurethane has a Young’s modulus three orders of magnitude lower than silica and can be stretched up to 600%. We report the fabrication of polyurethane optical fibers for applications from THz to the visible. We exploit ...Open AccessConference paper -
Wearable polyurethane optical fiber based sensor for breathing monitoring
Published 2018We experimentally demonstrate a wearable breathing monitoring sensor based on a polyurethane (PU) optical fiber. The mechanical flexibility of the PU fiber allows for the simple measurement of inhalation and exhalation ...Open AccessConference paper -
Flexible optical fiber sensor based on polyurethane
Published 2017Polyurethane (PU) based hollow core fibers are investigated as optical sensors. The flexibility of PU fibers makes it suitable for sensing mechanical perturbations. We fabricated a PU fiber using the fiber drawing method, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Orbital angular momentum modes by twisting of a hollow core antiresonant fiber
Published 2017Generation and use of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is finding more and more interest in a wide variety of fields of photonics: communications, optical trapping, quantum optics, and many more [1]. In the investigation ...Open AccessConference paper -
Pulse wave velocity measurement with soft-polymer optical fibers for wearable continuous blood pressure monitoring
Published 2020Soft-polymer fibers allow strong conformal contact with the skin and are extremely sensitive for deformation, despite high propagation loss. This enables pulse wave velocities measurements. Blood pressure can then be ...Open AccessConference paper