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412 OPTICS LETTERS / Vol. 36, No. 3 / February 1, 2011 High-pressure and high-temperature characteristics of a Fabry–Perot interferometer based on photonic crystal fiber Chuang Wu,1,2 H. Y. Fu,1 Khurram Karim Qureshi,3 Bai-Ou Guan,4 and H. Y. Tam1, * 1Photonics Research Centre, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 2PolyU-DUT Joint Research Center for Photonics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China 3Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran-31261, Saudi Arabia 4Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China *Corresponding author: eehytam@polyu.edu.hk Received October 5, 2010; revised November 24, 2010; accepted December 8, 2010; posted January 7, 2011 (Doc. ID 136172); published January 31, 2011 A fiber-optic Fabry–Perot interferometer was constructed by splicing a short length of photonic crystal fiber to a standard single-mode fiber. The photonic crystal fiber functions as a Fabry–Perot cavity and serves as a direct sensing probe without any additional components. Its pressure and temperature responses in the range of 0–40 MPa and 25 °C–700 °C were experimentally studied. The proposed sensor is easy to fabricate, potentially low- cost, and compact in size, which makes it very attractive for high-pressure and high-temperature sensing applications. © 2011 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 060.2370, 120.2230, 060.5295. A Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) consists of an