期刊
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
卷 36, 期 17, 页码 3672-3677出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2018.2842111
关键词
Optical fiber applications; optical fiber sensors; optical interferometry; optical polarization; silver
资金
- Dublin Institute of Technology FIOSRAIGH 2012
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Interferometer based on multiple beam interferences inside a hollow core fiber (HCF) structure (also known as an antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide) has been attracting interest of many researchers due to its periodic transmission spectrum containing high quality factor spectral dips. Functionalized HCF structures have been demonstrated for a wide range of applications in humidity, magnetic field, and biosensing. Here, we report a new application of the HCF-based structure with a partial silver coating layer for sensing of twist. It is configured by a fusion splicing a section of 4.5-mm long HCF between two standard single mode fibers (SMFs), followed by a sputter-coating of a very thin layer of silver on one side of the HCF surface. It is found that the spectral response of the partially silver coated HCF structure is very sensitive to the changes of input light polarization. An increase in sensitivity of the fiber structure to twist after deposition of the silver coating when the twist is applied to both the SMF and HCF sections is demonstrated by comparison with an uncoated HCF fiber structure. Experimental results show that twisting of the HCF section results in much greater changes in a selected dip's strength compared to that in the case of twisting the SMF section of the structure. The proposed HCF fiber sensors with 4.5-nm and 6.7 nm-thick silver layers show the highest sensitivities of 0.647 dB/degrees and 0.717 dB/degrees in the twist angles range of up to 10 degrees. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest twist sensitivity reported for intensity modulation-based fiber sensors. Moreover, the proposed sensor offers excellent measurement repeatability.
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