Journal
OPTICAL FIBER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 52-55Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2017.11.013
Keywords
Fiber optics sensor; Transverse load; Bowknot-type taper; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Polarization maintaining fiber
Funding
- National major scientific research instrument development project of Natural Science Foundation of China [61727816]
- China Scholarship Council [201608330010]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LY16A040005]
- Public project of Zhejiang province [LGG18F050003]
- Special Fund for Quality Inspection Research in the public Interest of China [201510066]
- National key R & D Program National quality base common technology research and application key special projects of China [2017YFF0209703]
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A transverse load fiber sensor based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed by a Bowknot-type taper between a single mode fiber (SMF) and a polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) was proposed. Due to the polarization maintaining fiber's birefringence, intensities of the two peaks which are corresponding to the fast and slow axis modes changed with the transverse load applied on the PMF. The experimental results showed that the structure with a 2 cm-long PMF has the sensitivities of 104.52 and - 102.94 dB/(N/mm) for the fast and slow axis spectral dip wavelengths of 1485 and 1545 nm in the interference pattern, respectively, which are almost 7 times higher than that of the current similar existing transverse load sensor.
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