Journal
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 12, Pages 3761-3770Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.3048981
Keywords
Couplings; Fiber gratings; Sensors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Sensitivity; Optical fibers; Optical fiber grating; mode coupling in excessively asymmetric structure; refractive index sensing; orientation sensing; biosensing
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [62075071, 615875026]
- Major Projects of Technical Innovation of Hubei Grants [2019AAA053, 2019AAA059]
- '111' Project [D20031]
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The development of excessively tilted fiber gratings (Ex-TFGs) has provided a new type of sensing device with high refractive index sensitivity, low thermal crosstalk, and vector sensing properties. These gratings have unique advantages such as dual-peak resonances and exceptional orientation sensing capability. Due to their specific mode coupling behavior, Ex-TFGs have been used for various sensing applications, including polarization dependent torsion sensors, vector accelerometers, and low thermal crosstalk bio/chemical sensors.
The development of excessively tilted fiber gratings (Ex-TFGs) provides a new type of sensing device with high refractive index (RI) sensitivity, low thermal crosstalk and vector sensing property. Due to the asymmetric grating structure of Ex-TFG, the light in the core is coupled into high order forward-propagating cladding modes and split into two orthogonal polarization states, resulting in dual-peak resonances in the transmission spectrum. The Ex-TFG also exhibits a non-circularly symmetrical near field distribution, which endows an exceptional orientation sensing capability. Benefitting from the unique mode coupling behavior, Ex-TFGs have been studied and developed for many different sensing applications, such as polarization dependent torsion and loading sensors, vector accelerometer and magnetometer, and a variety of low thermal crosstalk bio/chemical sensors. This paper will review the recent study and development of Ex-TFGs in terms of mode coupling mechanism, fabrication method, transmission and sensor characteristics and the novel applications in sensing areas.
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