Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 57, Issue 5, 050602(2020)

Experimental Study on Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensing System Based on Optical-Borne Microwave Interference

Sijing Liang1,2, Ciming Zhou1, Dian Fan1、*, Yuxiao Li1, Yandong Pang1, and Xi Chen1
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  • 1National Engineering Laboratory for Fiber Optic Sensing Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
  • 2School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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    A photonic crystal fiber sensing system based on optical-borne microwave interference is built to solve the problem that the current photonic crystal fiber sensor is sensitive to inter-mode interference and difficult to package. The system interference occurs between the microwave envelopes of the optical carriers, the light does not interfere, and the polarization fading, dispersion, and inter-mode interference of the optical waves have a little effect on the signal quality. Therefore, the system does not require special processing for the photonic crystal fiber, with low requirements of the processing accuracy. Strain and high temperature sensing experiments are carried out on the system. The strain test results show that the visibility of interference fringe in microwave domain can reach 20 dB, the strain measurement sensitivity at 8 GHz is 6.3 kHz/με, and the resolution of the microstrain measurement is 1.59 με. The temperature experimental results show that temperature measurement sensitivity of system is 76.04 kHz/℃ from room temperature to 800 ℃, and the theoretical temperature measurement resolution is 0.13 ℃. Temperature experiments using multiple sets of length probes prove that the system has good temperature sensitivity and stability.

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    Sijing Liang, Ciming Zhou, Dian Fan, Yuxiao Li, Yandong Pang, Xi Chen. Experimental Study on Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensing System Based on Optical-Borne Microwave Interference[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(5): 050602

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Aug. 12, 2019

    Accepted: Aug. 28, 2019

    Published Online: Mar. 5, 2020

    The Author Email: Fan Dian (fandian@whut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP57.050602

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