Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 6, 0606002(2020)

High-Sensitivity Fiber Fabry-Pérot Interferometer Strain Sensor

Bingsen Huang1, Shecheng Gao1、*, Xincheng Huang1, Yuanhua Feng1, Shufen Zhu2, Shuner Chen1, and Weipin Liu1
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  • 1College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, China
  • 2The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 0 10110, China
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    A composite structural strain sensor is proposed, which incorporates a high-sensitivity fiber Fabry-Pérot interferometer (FPI) into the fiber Sagnac interferometer (FSI). The sensitivity of the FPI strain sensor is greatly improved by the vernier effect, which is caused by the superposition of the FPI and calibrated FSI spectra. The results of theoretical calculation show that, the sensitivity of the composite structure sensor can be regulated by the free spectral range difference between two sets of interference spectra. Further, the experiment results show that, the sensitivity of the composite structure sensor is increased 19.7 times compared with that of a single FPI strain sensor, reaching 65.1 pm·με-1. The composite structure sensor plays an important role in scenarios requiring high sensitivity measurement and accurate measurement.

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    Bingsen Huang, Shecheng Gao, Xincheng Huang, Yuanhua Feng, Shufen Zhu, Shuner Chen, Weipin Liu. High-Sensitivity Fiber Fabry-Pérot Interferometer Strain Sensor[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(6): 0606002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Jul. 29, 2019

    Accepted: Dec. 2, 2019

    Published Online: Mar. 6, 2020

    The Author Email: Gao Shecheng (gaosc825@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202040.0606002

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