Photonic Sensors, Volume. 13, Issue 1, 230122(2023)
Strain and Temperature Discrimination Based on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer With Cascaded Single Mode Fibers
An in-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer is proposed for the discrimination of strain and temperature. The sensor is based on two cascaded standard single mode fibers using three peanut tapers fabricated by simple splicing. The cascaded structure excites more frequency components, which induce four sets of interference dips in the transmission spectrum. One set of the spectrum dips have different sensitivities to temperature and strain from those of the other three. The sensor can discriminate strain and temperature by monitoring the wavelength shifts of two spectrum dips. Repeated experiments are taken both for strain and temperature increasing and decreasing scenarios. Experimental results show that Dip 1 has an average strain sensitivity of -0.911 pm/με and an average temperature sensitivity of 49.98 pm/℃. The strain sensitivity for Dip 2 is negligible and its average temperature sensitivity is 60.52 pm/℃ The strain and temperature resolutions are ±3.82 με and ±0.33 ℃.
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Shiying XIAO, Beilei WU, Chunran SUN, Zixiao WANG, Youchao JIANG. Strain and Temperature Discrimination Based on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer With Cascaded Single Mode Fibers[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2023, 13(1): 230122
Category: Regular
Received: Dec. 30, 2021
Accepted: May. 6, 2022
Published Online: Mar. 12, 2023
The Author Email: WU Beilei (wubeilei@bjtu.edu.cn)