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The balloon-shaped SMF is created by offset-fusing a straight-line SMF between two other SMFs, thereby forming a Mach\u2013Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The core-offset structure can effectively excite higher-order cladding modes. The experimental results showed that the maximum sensitivity of blood glucose concentration was 0.331 nm\/(mmol\/l) and the maximum sensitivity of temperature was 0.216 nm\/\u00b0C when the offset distance was 10 \u03bcm. Dual-parameter measurement was achieved through a dual-parameter matrix. 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