Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 31, Issue 4, 406006(2011)

Highly Sensitive Fiber-Optic Vibration Sensor Based on Frequency-Locking of a FBG Fabry-Perot Cavity

Zhang Le*, Wu Bo, Ye Wen, and Shen Yonghang
Author Affiliations
  • [in Chinese]
  • show less

    A highly sensitive fiber-optic vibration sensor is developed based on the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) frequency locking scheme of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) Fabry-Perot (F-P) cavity. It measures the vibration signal by the error signal transferred and amplified from the phase change of the F-P cavity. The sensor system exhibits experimentally a nice sensing capability to the vibration signals within a frequency range from 1 to 5 kHz and it can obtain a more than 50dB signal to noise ratio. The analysis of the sensor, taking into account the parameters of elements used in the system and many environment factors, shows that it may reach a resolution as high as 11.7×10-12 strain/Hz, which is much better than those of the traditional fiber sensing systems.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Zhang Le, Wu Bo, Ye Wen, Shen Yonghang. Highly Sensitive Fiber-Optic Vibration Sensor Based on Frequency-Locking of a FBG Fabry-Perot Cavity[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2011, 31(4): 406006

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Sep. 16, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 1, 2011

    The Author Email: Le Zhang (zhangle1987129@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/aos201131.0406006

    Topics