Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5007200 | Optics & Laser Technology | 2017 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Temperature and transverse load sensing characteristics of twisted long period fiber gratings (T-LPFGs) written by femtosecond laser have been experimentally investigated. The temperature sensitivity of the proposed T-LPFGs reaches 65.31 pm/°C with a linearity of 0.992 within the temperature range from 20 °C to 300 °C, and the coincidence of temperature increase and decrease is good enough. The transverse load characteristic of the T-LPFGs is quite different to the traditional LPFG, within the circular position 0° to ±15°, the T-LPFGs is load-sensitive, corresponding to the resonant wavelength “blue” shift and within other orientation the T-LPFGs is load-insensitive. Specifically, there is 1 dB separation between the two resonance peaks with 400 g loading applied or not to the T-LPFGs fiber, giving a transverse load sensitivity of 4.03 dB/mg. In addition, the proposed T-LPFGs are very suitable for the applications in the temperature and transverse load sensor.
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Authors
Dongkai Chu, Xiaoyan Sun, Xinran Dong, Zheng Xie, Yuxin Song, Chu Zhou, Cong Wang, Ji-An Duan, Youwang Hu,