Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 56, Issue 17, 170630(2019)

Non-Scanning Correlation Demodulation for Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Microcavity Strain Sensor

Wanying Kou, Wei Wang*, Haibin Chen, Tianyang Zhang, and Wentao Lü
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  • School of Optoelectronics Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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    A highly sensitive fiber-optic Fabry-Perot microcavity strain sensor is fabricated using single-mode fibers and a glass capillary tube; the fabricated strain sensor is demodulated using the non-scanning correlation demodulation method. The sensor is fabricated by penetrating two vertically cut single-mode fused silica fibers into a hollow core fused silica fiber and fixing the fibers to both ends of the hollow core fused silica fiber. Thus, the enhanced cavity length-strain sensitivity of the fiber-optic Fabry-Perot microcavity strain sensor is realized. The sensor has a cavity length with micron dimension. The non-scanning correlation demodulation method is used for demodulation based on varying cavity lengths. For a fiber-optic Fabry-Perot microcavity strain sensor with an initial cavity length of 30.129 μm and a hollow core capillary length of 40 mm, the cavity length-strain sensitivity reaches 14.08 nm/με and its linearity is up to 99.7%.

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    Wanying Kou, Wei Wang, Haibin Chen, Tianyang Zhang, Wentao Lü. Non-Scanning Correlation Demodulation for Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Microcavity Strain Sensor[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2019, 56(17): 170630

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: May. 21, 2019

    Accepted: Jul. 2, 2019

    Published Online: Sep. 5, 2019

    The Author Email: Wang Wei (wangwei@xatu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP56.170630

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