Simultaneous measurement of curvature and temperature using a 3D-printed seven-core optical fiber inscribed with a fiber Bragg grating

Yang Cao; Zhexu Huang; Yanhua Luo; Jianxiang Wen; Yanhua Dong; Tingyun Wang; Chengbo Mou; Wei Chen; Fufei Pang; Zhiqiang Song; Xiaolei Zhang; Jiasheng Ni; Ishaq Ahmad; Haroon Asghar; Gang-Ding Peng

doi:10.3788/COL202523.100603

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 10, 100603(2025)

Simultaneous measurement of curvature and temperature using a 3D-printed seven-core optical fiber inscribed with a fiber Bragg grating

Yang Cao¹, Zhexu Huang¹, Yanhua Luo^1、*, Jianxiang Wen¹, Yanhua Dong¹, Tingyun Wang¹, Chengbo Mou¹, Wei Chen¹, Fufei Pang¹, Zhiqiang Song², Xiaolei Zhang², Jiasheng Ni², Ishaq Ahmad³, Haroon Asghar³, and Gang-Ding Peng⁴

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

²Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing Technologies, Laser Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China

³National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

⁴Photonics & Optical Communications, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

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Yang Cao, Zhexu Huang, Yanhua Luo, Jianxiang Wen, Yanhua Dong, Tingyun Wang, Chengbo Mou, Wei Chen, Fufei Pang, Zhiqiang Song, Xiaolei Zhang, Jiasheng Ni, Ishaq Ahmad, Haroon Asghar, Gang-Ding Peng, "Simultaneous measurement of curvature and temperature using a 3D-printed seven-core optical fiber inscribed with a fiber Bragg grating," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 100603 (2025)

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Paper Information

Category: Fiber optics and optical communications

Received: Apr. 17, 2025

Accepted: Jun. 9, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 24, 2025

The Author Email: Yanhua Luo (yhluo3@shu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.100603

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.100603

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