Abstract
We propose a hydrostatic pressure sensor based on a gold-coated thin-core fiber modal interferometer (TCFMI). A thin-core fiber is spliced to a single mode fiber forming a single-end fiber modal interferometer (FMI) due to the core mismatch and the fiber end reflection. Relative reflection spectra of TCFMIs based on thin-core fibers with different lengths are investigated. The TCFMI is gold-coated to enhance the optical reflectivity, which also results in the ripple of the relative reflection spectra of TCFMI. A high hydrostatic pressure sensor test system is proposed and the performance of the pressure sensor has been experimentally investigated. A pure-ripple-shift measurement method is used to achieve the demodulation of the sensor. The proposed pressure sensor has a sensing range up to 40 MPa and a sensitivity of 44.8 pm/MPa.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3471-3474 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Optics Communications |
| Volume | 285 |
| Issue number | 16 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jul 2012 |
Keywords
- Fiber modal interferometer
- Gold coating
- Hydrostatic pressure sensor
- Thin-core fiber
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering