A new method for resolving the influence of circular birefringence in FBG weak pressure sensor

Ideally, there is a linear relationship between the max of PDL and pressure in FBG weak pressure sensor. However, the linear relationship has been broken down because of the cross sensitivity about the circular birefringence and pressure. In this paper, the relative PDL was proposed to solve the cross sensitivity problem. For different circular birefringences, the experimental results show the same pressure sensitivity value of 2.29 dB/(N/nm). The theoretical analysis and experimental results prove that the proposed method can solve the cross-sensitivity problem in FBG weak pressure sensor. This research can provide useful information to practical application.