Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5007534 | Optics & Laser Technology | 2017 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
A differential intensity-modulated refractive index (RI) sensor consisting of a no-core fiber (NCF) filter, a circulator and two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is proposed and demonstrated. A section of the NCF is sandwiched between two parts of single mode fibers (SMFs) to form a band-pass filter. The Bragg wavelengths of the FBGs are chosen at the two edges of the filter, respectively. The peak wavelength of the NCF filter has a red-shift with the increase of the surrounding refractive index (SRI) while the Bragg wavelengths have no change, which results in the variation of the difference of the two FBGs reflective intensities, thus the differential intensity modulation to the SRI can be accomplished. Compared with directly connecting the NCF filter and the FBGs, this sensing structure can increase the output power so as to improve the measuring resolution. The experimental results show that the RI sensitivities are â99.191Â dB/RIU and â139.958Â dB/RIU at the range of 1.3329-1.3781 and 1.3781-1.401, respectively. In addition, the disturbance from the light source fluctuation and temperature cross sensitivity can be minimized effectively, which has great potential in actual applications.
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Authors
Cheng Zhang, Shan Xu, Junfa Zhao, Hongqiang Li, Hua Bai, Changyun Miao,