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| | Teams Try New Approaches to Fiber Sensors - May, 2004 |
 | | Mach-Zehnder interferometers in single-mode fiber are well-understood, but it will be more difficult to analyze the sensing data from one in a photonic crystal fiber because the physics of light propagation in the airhole cladding of a photonic crystal fiber has not been thoroughly studied. |
 | | In a conventional, free-space Mach-Zehnder interferometer (Figure 2, top), one beamsplitter divides the incoming light between the interferometer's two arms, and a second recombines the beams. |
 | | Other laboratories have demonstrated single-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers in conventional single-mode fiber, but, recently, a collaboration at SungKyunKwan University in Suwon, and at Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Gwangju, both in South Korea, has demonstrated such a device in a photonic crystal fiber. |
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