READ ME File For 'Bend Monitoring and Refractive Index Sensing using Flat Fibre' Dataset DOI: ReadMe Author: Christopher Holmes [0000-0001-9021-3760], University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS: Christopher Holmes, Sumiaty Ambran, Peter A Cooper, Andrew S Webb, James C Gates, Corin BE Gawith, Jayanta K Sahu and Peter GR Smith TITLE: Bend Monitoring and Refractive Index Sensing using Flat Fibre and Multicore Bragg gratings JOURNAL: Measurement Sciecne and Technology PAPER DOI: 10.1088/1361-6501/ab8710 This dataset contains the following files: '1mm_y_deflection.txt' - details the y-axis displacement and spectral response of Bragg gratings along cantilevered flat fibre 'RI.txt@ - details the refractive index response of the evanescent exposed grating 'X_Deflection.txt' - provides the spectral sensitivity of three gratings under investigation subject to applied deflection along the x-axis 'Y_Deflection.txt' - provides the spectral sensitivity of three gratings under investigation subject to applied deflection along the y-axis Date of data collection: June-July 2019 Information about geographic location of data collection: B53, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton Licence: Attribution 4.0 International Date that the file was created: April, 2020