A miniature in-line fiber-optic Fabry-Perot etalon sensor is fabricated on a photonic-crystal-fiber (PCF) by using 157nm laser micromachining for the first time to our knowledge. Experimental results show that such a PCF-based etalon sensor has an excellent fringe visibility of up to ～26dB due to the mirror-finish quality of the two cavity surfaces inside the PCF. This etalon sensor can be used as an ideal one for precise strain measurement under high temperature of up to800°C. It can offer other outstanding advantages, such as fast and easy fabrication, high reproducibility, capacity of mass-production, low-cost, low temperature-strain cross-sensitivity, and high signal-to-noise ratio, etc.
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