Guest Editorial JLT Special Issue on OFS-26

Luc Thévenaz, Moshe Tur, Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Avinoam Zadok, and Marcelo A. Soto

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4455-4455 (2019)  View: PDF

Optical Fiber Probe Viscometer Based on Hollow Capillary Tube

André D. Gomes, Jens Kobelke, Jörg Bierlich, Kay Schuster, Hartmut Bartelt, and Orlando Frazão

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4456-4461 (2019)  View: PDF

108-km Distributed Acoustic Sensor With 220-p $\varepsilon /\surd$ Hz Strain Resolution and 5-m Spatial Resolution

Dian Chen, Qingwen Liu, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4462-4468 (2019)  View: PDF

Effects of Solvent Etching on PMMA Microstructured Optical Fiber Bragg Grating

Jakob Janting, Jens K. M. Pedersen, Rune Inglev, Getinet Woyessa, Kristian Nielsen, and Ole Bang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4469-4479 (2019)  View: PDF

Small and Robust All-Polymer Fiber Bragg Grating Based pH Sensor

Jakob Janting, Jens K. M. Pedersen, Getinet Woyessa, Kristian Nielsen, and Ole Bang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4480-4486 (2019)  View: PDF

Fully Distributed Optical Fiber Strain Sensor With 10⁻¹² ε/√Hz Sensitivity

Luís Costa, Hugo F. Martins, Sonia Martín-López, María R. Fernández-Ruiz, and Miguel González-Herráez

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4487-4495 (2019)  View: PDF

Distributed Hydrostatic Pressure Measurement Using Phase-OTDR in a Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fiber

Sergei Mikhailov, Li Zhang, Thomas Geernaert, Francis Berghmans, and Luc Thévenaz

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4496-4500 (2019)  View: PDF

Tailoring Properties of Microcavity In-Line Mach-Zehnder Interferometer by the Microcavity Enlargement Using Femtosecond Laser

Monika Janik, Tinko Eftimov, Marcin Koba, Mateusz Śmietana, and Wojtek J. Bock

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4501-4506 (2019)  View: PDF

Temperature Compensation of Interferometric and Polarimetric Fiber-Optic Current Sensors With Spun Highly Birefringent Fiber

Georg M. Müller, Andreas Frank, Lin Yang, Xun Gu, and Klaus Bohnert

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4507-4513 (2019)  View: PDF

A Contextual GMM-HMM Smart Fiber Optic Surveillance System for Pipeline Integrity Threat Detection

Javier Tejedor, Javier Macias-Guarasa, Hugo F. Martins, Sonia Martin-Lopez, and Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4514-4522 (2019)  View: PDF

Diffractive Elements Inscribed at End-Fiber Surface by Femtosecond Laser

David Pallarés-Aldeiturriaga, Luis Rodríguez-Cobo, Mauro Lomer, and José Miguel López-Higuera

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4523-4530 (2019)  View: PDF

Integrated Differential Area Method for Variable Sensitivity Interrogation of Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors

Tingting Gang, Fu Liu, Manli Hu, and Jacques Albert

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4531-4536 (2019)  View: PDF

Characterization of 100 Micron Long Fiber Bragg Gratings and Applications in Ultrafast Shock Wave Experiments

Ehud Shafir, Garry Berkovic, Shlomi Zilberman Yair Saadi, Alexander Fedotov-Gefen, Yonatan Schweitzer, and Avi Ravid

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4537-4541 (2019)  View: PDF

Water-Induced Fused Silica Glass Surface Alterations Monitored Using Long-Period Fiber Gratings

Marta Janczuk-Richter, Magdalena Dominik, Marcin Koba, Predrag Mikulic, Wojtek J. Bock, Sebastian Maćkowski, Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka, Joanna Niedziółka-Jönsson, and Mateusz Śmietana

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4542-4548 (2019)  View: PDF

Narrowing Spectral Linewidth in Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analyzers With Adjustable Spatial Resolution

Sheng Wang, Xiaobin Hong, Xizi Sun, and Jian Wu

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4549-4554 (2019)  View: PDF

Low-Noise Closed-Loop FOG Driven by Two Broadband Sources

Yuanhong Yang, Shuai Li, Han Yan, and Wei Jin

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4555-4559 (2019)  View: PDF

Comparative Investigation of Gamma Radiation Effects on Long Period Gratings and Optical Power in Different Optical Fibers

Flavio Esposito, Andrei Stăncălie, Constantin-Daniel Neguţ, Stefania Campopiano, Dan Sporea, and Agostino Iadicicco

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4560-4566 (2019)  View: PDF

Hermetic Carbon Coatings for Electro-Thermal All-Fiber Phase Modulators

Andres Garcia-Ruiz, Hugo F. Martins, Regina Magalhães, João M. B. Pereira, Oleksandr Tarasenko, Lars Norin, Walter Margulis, Sonia Martin-Lopez, and Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4567-4572 (2019)  View: PDF

Distributed Dynamic Strain Measurement Based on Dual-Slope-Assisted Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis

Bin Wang, Xinyu Fan, Yuanxiu Fu, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4573-4583 (2019)  View: PDF

Mach–Zehnder Interferometers Based on Long Period Fiber Grating Coated With Titanium Dioxide for Refractive Index Sensing

Helena Catarina Araújo Soares Guedes Vasconcelos, José Manuel Marques Martins de Almeida, Cristina Maria Teixeira Saraiva, Pedro Alberto da Silva Jorge, and Luis Carlos Costa Coelho

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4584-4589 (2019)  View: PDF

Long-Range Distributed Static Strain Sensing With $< $ 100 Nano-Strain Resolution Realized Using OFDR

Zhaopeng Zhang, Xinyu Fan, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4590-4596 (2019)  View: PDF

Distributed Dynamic Strain Sensing via Perfect Periodic Coherent Codes and a Polarization Diversity Receiver

Juan José Mompó, Lihi Shiloh, Nadav Arbel, Nadav Levanon, Alayn Loayssa, and Avishay Eyal

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4597-4602 (2019)  View: PDF

Design, Testing, and Realization of a Distributed Fiber Optic Monitoring System to Assess Bending Characteristics Along Grouted Anchors

Christoph M. Monsberger and Werner Lienhart

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4603-4609 (2019)  View: PDF

Fiber Optic Probe Based on Self-Assembled Photonic Crystal for Relative Humidity Sensing

Pasquale Di Palma, Lucia Sansone, Chiara Taddei, Stefania Campopiano, Agostino Iadicicco, and Michele Giordano

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4610-4618 (2019)  View: PDF

Combined Experimental and Simulation Study of the Fiber Composition Effects on Its Brillouin Scattering Signature

Camille Sabatier, Sylvain Girard, Luciano Mescia, Ayoub Ladaci, Thierry Robin, Benoit Cadier, Aziz Boukenter, Youcef Ouerdane, and Emmanuel Marin

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4619-4624 (2019)  View: PDF

Vibration Sensing Using Liquid-Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber With a Central Air-Bore

Haihu Yu, Zhuozhao Luo, Yu Zheng, Jian Ma, Xin Jiang, and Desheng Jiang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4625-4633 (2019)  View: PDF

Temperature-Compensated Multifunctional All-Fiber Sensors for Precise Strain/High-Pressure Measurement

Tingting Yang, Zengling Ran, Xiu He, Zhuoyue Li, Zhendong Xie, Yaxin Wang, Yunjiang Rao, Xueguang Qiao, Zhengxi He, Peng He, Yanguang Yang, and Fu Min

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4634-4642 (2019)  View: PDF

Qualification and Calibration of Single-Mode Phosphosilicate Optical Fiber for Dosimetry at CERN

Diego Di Francesca, Gaetano Li Vecchi, Sylvain Girard, Adriana Morana, Imene Reghioua, Antonino Alessi, Cornelia Hoehr, Thierry Robin, Yacine Kadi, and Markus Brugger

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4643-4649 (2019)  View: PDF

Reducing Residual Strain in Fiber Bragg Grating Temperature Sensors Embedded in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers

Pingyu Zhu, Jiang Wu, Mengjiao Huang, Yetian Wang, Pan Liu, and Marcelo A. Soto

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4650-4656 (2019)  View: PDF

Feedforward Laser Linewidth Narrowing Scheme Using Acousto-Optic Frequency Shifter and Direct Digital Synthesizer

Jiageng Chen, Qingwen Liu, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4657-4664 (2019)  View: PDF

Etched and Nanocoated Single-Mode Multimode Single-Mode (SMS) Fibers for Detection of Wind Turbine Gearbox Oil Degradation

Ignacio Del Villar, Jaime Goñi, Adrian Vicente, Francisco J. Arregui, and Ignacio R. Matias

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4665-4673 (2019)  View: PDF

Measurement of Thermal Gradients Using Long Period Gratings at Different Levels of Ambient Refractive Indices

N’Guessan Koffi, Tinko A. Eftimov, Frédéric Lesage, Predrag Mikulic, and Wojtek J. Bock

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4674-4679 (2019)  View: PDF

175-km Repeaterless BOTDA With Hybrid High-Order Random Fiber Laser Amplification

Yun Fu, Richeng Zhu, Bing Han, Han Wu, Yun-Jiang Rao, Chongyu Lu, and Zinan Wang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4680-4686 (2019)  View: PDF

Measuring the Two-Dimensional Temperature Profile of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers During Drilling Using Distributed Fiber Sensing

Pingyu Zhu, Yetian Wang, Shuaibin Wang, and Marcelo A. Soto

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4687-4696 (2019)  View: PDF

Low-Loss Random Fiber Gratings Made With an fs-IR Laser for Distributed Fiber Sensing

Ping Lu, Stephen J. Mihailov, David Coulas, Huimin Ding, and Xiaoyi Bao

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4697-4702 (2019)  View: PDF

Refractive Index and Temperature Sensing Using Inter-Core Crosstalk in Multicore Fibers

Javier Madrigal, David Barrera, and Salvador Sales

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4703-4709 (2019)  View: PDF

Analysis and Reduction of Large Errors in Rayleigh-Based Distributed Sensor

Li Zhang, Luis Duarte Costa, Zhisheng Yang, Marcelo A. Soto, Miguel Gonzalez-Herráez, and Luc Thévenaz

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4710-4719 (2019)  View: PDF

Characterisation of Transverse Matrix Cracks in Composite Materials Using Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors

Aydin Rajabzadeh, Richard Heusdens, Richard C. Hendriks, and Roger M. Groves

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4720-4727 (2019)  View: PDF

Linearly Configured Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis System Incorporating Time-Domain Data Processing

Gukbeen Ryu, Gyu-Tae Kim, Kwang Yong Song, Sang Bae Lee, and Kwanil Lee

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4728-4733 (2019)  View: PDF

An FBG-Based Sensing Glove to Measure Dynamic Finger Flexure With an Angular Resolution of 0.1 $^{\circ }$ up to Speeds of 80 $\mathrm{^{\circ }\text{/s}}$

Chandan Kumar Jha, Shivang Agarwal, Arup Lal Chakraborty, and Chinmay Shirpurkar

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4734-4740 (2019)  View: PDF

Investigation of YAG:Ce-Based Optical Fibre Sensor for Use in Ultra-Fast External Beam Radiotherapy Dosimetry

Lingxia Chen, Sinead O'Keeffe, Shuilin Chen, Peter Woulfe, Sean Gillespie, Benxue Jiang, and Elfed Lewis

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4741-4747 (2019)  View: PDF

80 km Fading Free Phase-Sensitive Reflectometry Based on Multi-Carrier NLFM Pulse Without Distributed Amplification

Jingdong Zhang, Haoting Wu, Hua Zheng, Jingsheng Huang, Guolu Yin, Tao Zhu, Feng Qiu, Xianbin Huang, Dingrong Qu, and Yongzhong Bai

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4748-4754 (2019)  View: PDF

Efficient Processing of Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data Using a Deep Learning Approach

Lihi Shiloh, Avishay Eyal, and Raja Giryes

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4755-4762 (2019)  View: PDF

Radiation and High Temperature Effects on Regenerated Fiber Bragg Grating

Thomas Blanchet, Rudy Desmarchelier, Adriana Morana, Aziz Boukenter, Youcef Ouerdane, Emmanuel Marin, Guillaume Laffont, and Sylvain Girard

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4763-4769 (2019)  View: PDF

Integrated Dynamic Wavelength Division Multiplexed FBG Sensor Interrogator on a Silicon Photonic Chip

Yisbel E. Marin, Arda Celik, Stefano Faralli, Laetitia Adelmini, Christophe Kopp, Fabrizio Di Pasquale, and Claudio J. Oton

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4770-4775 (2019)  View: PDF

Polymer Optical Fiber Modification By Etching Using Hansen Solubility Parameters—A Case Study of TOPAS, Zeonex, and PMMA

Rune Inglev, Getinet Woyessa, Ole Bang, and Jakob Janting

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4776-4783 (2019)  View: PDF

Highly Sensitive FBG Pressure Sensor Based on a 3D-Printed Transducer

Luca Schenato, Qiangzhou Rong, Zhihua Shao, Xueguang Quiao, Alessandro Pasuto, Andrea Galtarossa, and Luca Palmieri

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4784-4790 (2019)  View: PDF

Electroless Nickel-Plating Sealing in FBG Pressure Sensor for Thermoelectric Power Plant Engines Applications

Joao Batista Rosolem, Rivael Strobel Penze, Fábio Renato Bassan, Claudio Floridia, Rodrigo Peres, Danilo César Dini, Deleon Vasconcelos, and Marcelo Agra Ramos Junior

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4791-4798 (2019)  View: PDF

Coherent Kramers-Kronig Receiver for $\boldsymbol \Phi$ -OTDR

Jialin Jiang, Zi-nan Wang, Zi-tan Wang, Yue Wu, Shengtao Lin, Ji Xiong, Yongxiang Chen, and Yunjiang Rao

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4799-4807 (2019)  View: PDF

SPR Fiber Tip Sensor for the Simultaneous Measurement of Refractive Index, Temperature, and Level of a Liquid

Monserrat del Carmen Alonso-Murias, Jesus Salvador Velázquez-González, and David Monzón-Hernández

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4808-4814 (2019)  View: PDF

A Recyclable Optical Fiber Sensor Based on Fluorescent Carbon Dots for the Determination of Ferric Ion Concentrations

Haitao Lin, Jun Huang, and Liyun Ding

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4815-4822 (2019)  View: PDF

Case Study for Monitoring the Rhythmic Masticatory Muscle Activity During Sleep Bruxism Episodes by Using Fiber Bragg Gratings

Rodrigo Fiorin, Ana Paula G. O. Franco, Mauren Abreu de Souza, Danielle M. Fontenele, Ismael Luviseti G. Jones, Hypolito Jose Kalinowski, and Ilda Abe

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4823-4829 (2019)  View: PDF

Spring-Loaded Diaphragm-Based Fiber Acoustic Sensor

Behrad Habib Afshar and Michel J. F. Digonnet

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4830-4837 (2019)  View: PDF

Pico-Strain Resolution Multiplexed Fiber Grating Sensor Array Interrogated With Mode-Locked Laser

Shuangxiang Zhao, Qingwen Liu, Jiageng Chen, and Zuyuan He

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4838-4843 (2019)  View: PDF

Circular Airy Beam Shaping by Annular Arrayed-Core Fiber

Hongchang Deng, Chuanxin Teng, Houquan Liu, Ming Chen, Shijie Deng, Ronghui Xu, Hongyan Yang, and Libo Yuan

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4844-4850 (2019)  View: PDF

Two Correlated Interferometric Optical Fiber Systems Applied to the Mining Activity Recordings

Anna T. Kurzych, Leszek R. Jaroszewicz, Zbigniew Krajewski, Michał Dudek, Krzysztof P. Teisseyre, and Jerzy K. Kowalski

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4851-4857 (2019)  View: PDF

Multiplexing Optical Fiber Macro-Bend Load Sensors

Marcos Aleksandro Kamizi, Diogo Lugarini, Ruahn Fuser, Lucas Herman Negri, José Luís Fabris, and Marcia Muller

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4858-4863 (2019)  View: PDF

All-in-Fiber Cladding Interferometric and Bragg Grating Components Made via Plane-by-Plane Femtosecond Laser Inscription

Antreas Theodosiou, Andreas Ioannou, and Kyriacos Kalli

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4864-4871 (2019)  View: PDF

Demodulation of Polarimetric Fiber Laser Ultrasonic Sensor With Intensity Noise Cancellation

Jianfei Wang, Gordon M. H. Flockhart, and Deepak Uttamchandani

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4872-4880 (2019)  View: PDF

Dentistry Applications of Fiber Bragg Gratings: Irradiation Protocols for Bulk Fill Flow Dental Composites

Ana Paula Gebert de Oliveira Franco, Manoella Maria Machado Costa, Leandro Zen Karam, Osnara Maria Mongruel Gomes, and Hypolito José Kalinowski

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4881-4887 (2019)  View: PDF

Dynamic Measurements of 1000 Microstrains Using Chirped-Pulse Phase-Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry

Hari Datta Bhatta, Luis Costa, Andres Garcia-Ruiz, Maria R. Fernandez-Ruiz, Hugo F. Martins, Moshe Tur, and Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4888-4895 (2019)  View: PDF

Vibration-Induced Beat Frequency Offset Compensation in Distributed Acoustic Sensing Based on Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry

Tatsuya Okamoto, Daisuke Iida, and Hiroyuki Oshida

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4896-4901 (2019)  View: PDF

Enhanced FBG Temperature Sensitivity in PbS-Doped Silica Optical Fiber

Xiangping Pan, Yanhua Dong, Jiajia Zheng, Jianxiang Wen, Fufei Pang, Zhenyi Chen, Yana Shang, and Tingyun Wang

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(18), 4902-4907 (2019)  View: PDF