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We designed a novel core-suspended capillary fiber that the core was suspended in the air hole and close to the inner surface of the capillary, and experimentally demonstrated its fabrication technology. In addition, a method for linking a single mode fiber and a core-suspended fiber was proposed based on splicing and tapering at the fusion point between the two fibers. By combining with the optical time domain reflectometer technology, we constructed a distributed gas sensor system to monitor greenhouse gas based on this novel fiber.
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Zhang, T., Ma, L., Bai, H. et al. Design and fabrication of a novel core-suspended optic fiber for distributed gas sensor. Photonic Sens 4, 97–101 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-014-0171-6
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