Del Villar, IgnacioSocorro Leránoz, Abián BentorHernáez Sáenz de Zaitigui, MiguelCorres Sanz, Jesús MaríaRuiz Zamarreño, CarlosSánchez Zábal, PedroArregui San Martín, Francisco JavierMatías Maestro, Ignacio2018-03-272018-03-2720151687-725X (print)1687-7268 (electronic)10.1155/2015/763762https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/28107Two simple optical fibre structures that do not require the inscription of a grating, a cladding removed multimode optical fibre (CRMOF) and a single-mode multimode single-mode structure (SMS), are compared in terms of their adequateness for sensing once they are coated with thin-films.The thin-film deposited (TiO2/PSS) permits increasing the sensitivity to surrounding medium refractive index. The results obtained can be extrapolated to other fields such as biological or chemical sensing just by replacing the thin-film by a specific material.application/pdfengCopyright © 2015 Ignacio Del Villar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Optical fiber sensorsInterferometryLossy mode resonanceArtículo / ArtikuluaAcceso abierto / Sarbide irekiainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess