Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/4142
Title: Microfluidic flows and heat transfer and their influence on optical modes in microstructure fibers
Authors: Davies, Edward M. 
Florides, Georgios A. 
Kalli, Kyriacos 
Christodoulides, Paul 
metadata.dc.contributor.other: Καλλή, Κυριάκος
Χριστοδουλίδης, Παύλος
Φλωρίδης, Γεώργιος Α.
Major Field of Science: Engineering and Technology
Field Category: Electrical Engineering - Electronic Engineering - Information Engineering
Keywords: Microstructure optical fibers;Heat transfer;Microfluidics
Issue Date: 24-Nov-2014
Source: Materials, 2014, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 7566-7582
Volume: 7
Issue: 11
Start page: 7566
End page: 7582
Journal: Materials 
Abstract: A finite element analysis (FEA) model has been constructed to predict the thermo-fluidic and optical properties of a microstructure optical fiber (MOF) accounting for changes in external temperature, input water velocity and optical fiber geometry. Modeling a water laminar flow within a water channel has shown that the steady-state temperature is dependent on the water channel radius while independent of the input velocity. There is a critical channel radius below which the steady-state temperature of the water channel is constant, while above, the temperature decreases. However, the distance required to reach steady state within the water channel is dependent on both the input velocity and the channel radius. The MOF has been found capable of supporting multiple modes. Despite the large thermo-optic coefficient of water, the bound modes’ response to temperature was dominated by the thermo-optic coefficient of glass. This is attributed to the majority of the light being confined within the glass, which increased with increasing external temperature due to a larger difference in the refractive index between the glass core and the water channel.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/4142
ISSN: 19961944
DOI: 10.3390/ma7117566
Rights: © Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Type: Article
Affiliation : Cyprus University of Technology 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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