Search Results - "André, Ricardo M"
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Simultaneous measurement of temperature and refractive index using focused ion beam milled Fabry-Perot cavities in optical fiber micro-tips
Published in Optics express (27-06-2016)“…Optical fiber micro-tips are promising devices for sensing applications in small volume and difficult to access locations, such as biological and biomedical…”
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Sensing with ultra-short Fabry-Perot cavities written into optical micro-fibers
Published in Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical (01-06-2017)“…•Optical micro-fiber Fabry-Perot cavities as short as 2.8μm fabricated using focused ion beam milling.•Broadband visible wavelength interrogation allows for…”
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Direct core structuring of microstructured optical fibers using focused ion beam milling
Published in Optics express (11-01-2016)“…We demonstrate the use of focused ion beam milling to machine optical structures directly into the core of microstructured optical fibers. The particular fiber…”
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Fiber Loop Mirror Using a Small Core Microstructured Fiber for Strain and Temperature Discrimination
Published in IEEE photonics technology letters (01-08-2010)“…In this work, a fiber loop mirror for the simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature is presented. The loop mirror contains a section of a small core…”
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Focused ion beam post-processing of optical fiber Fabry-Perot cavities for sensing applications
Published in Optics express (02-06-2014)“…Focused ion beam technology is combined with chemical etching of specifically designed fibers to create Fabry-Perot interferometers. Hydrofluoric acid is used…”
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Combined microfiber knot resonator and focused ion beam-milled Mach-Zehnder interferometer for refractive index measurement
Published in 2017 25th Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (OFS) (01-04-2017)“…A Mach-Zehnder interferometer was created from a cavity milled in the taper region next to a microfiber knot resonator. A focused ion beam was used to mill the…”
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Strain sensitivity enhancement in suspended core fiber tapers
Published in Photonic sensors (Berlin) (01-06-2013)“…Suspended core fiber tapers with different cross sections (with diameters from 70 μm to 120 μm) are produced by filament heating. Before obtaining the taper,…”
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Strain-Temperature Discrimination Using Multimode Interference in Tapered Fiber
Published in IEEE photonics technology letters (15-01-2013)“…Tapering single-mode-multimode-single-mode structures to enhance sensitivity is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. 50-mm-long coreless multimode fiber…”
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Malnutrition and Depression among Community-dwelling Elderly People
Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (01-11-2007)“…Objectives This study had the objective of analyzing the association between nutritional deficit and the presence of depression among community-dwelling…”
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Health care–associated infection and hospital readmission in a home care service for children
Published in American journal of infection control (01-04-2012)“…The number of children in home health care services is increasing, and there is a need for infection control regulation in this environment. We describe the…”
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