Specialty fibers have enabled a wide range of sensing applications. Particularly, with the recent advancement of anti-resonant effects, specialty fibers with hollow structures offer a unique sensing platform to achieve highly accurate and ultra-compact fiber optic sensors with large measurement ranges. This review presents an overview of recent progress in anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for sensing applications. Both regular and irregular-shaped fibers and their performance in various sensing scenarios are summarized. Finally, the challenges and possible solutions are briefly presented with some perspectives toward the future development of anti-resonant hollow-core fibers for advanced sensing.
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This research / project is supported by the Hubei Province - Key Technology R&D Program
Grant Reference no. : 2020BBB097
This research / project is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education - Academic Research Fund Tier 2
Grant Reference no. : MOE2019-T2-2-127 and T2EP50120-0005
This research / project is supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research - AME IRG
Grant Reference no. : A2083c0062
This research / project is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education - Academic Research Fund Tier 1
Grant Reference no. : RG90/19 and RG73/19
This research / project is supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore - Competitive Research Program
Grant Reference no. : NRF-CRP18-2017-02
This work was also supported by South-Central University for Nationalities and Nanyang Technological University.