Journal
SENSORS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 54-61Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/s110100054
Keywords
femtosecond laser; fiber sensors; Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [90923039, 50705009]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2008AA03Z301]
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During new fiber sensor development experiments, an easy-to-fabricate simple sensing structure with a trench and partially ablated fiber core is fabricated by using an 800 nm 35 fs 1 kHz laser. It is demonstrated that the structure forms a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with the interference between the laser light passing through the air in the trench cavity and that in the remained fiber core. The fringe visibilities are all more than 25 dB. The transmission spectra vary with the femtosecond (fs) laser ablation scanning cycle. The free spectral range (FSR) decreases as the trench length increases. The MZI structure is of very high fabrication and sensing repeatability. The sensing mechanism is theoretically discussed, which is in agreement with experiments. The test sensitivity for acetone vapor is about 10(4) nm/RIU, and the temperature sensitivity is 51.5 pm/degrees C at 200 similar to 875 degrees C with a step of 25 degrees C.
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