Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 7, 070601(2017)

Simple capillary-based extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometer for strain sensing

Xiaobei Zhang*, Haiyang Shao, Haiyang Pan, Yong Yang, Huawen Bai, Fufei Pang, and Tingyun Wang
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  • Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
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    (a) Illustration for fabricating the device, and (b) the reflection spectrum of the capillary-based FPI. Inset shows the propagation paths of the input and output light in the sensor device.
    (a) Reflection spectra of the fabricated FPI devices with different interferometer lengths and the capillary ID of 50 μm. (b)-(d) Microscopic images of fabricated FPI devices.
    Measured insertion loss for the devices with an inner capillary diameter of 50 μm.
    Illustration of the strain sensing experimental setup. EFPI, extrinsic FPI.
    (a) Spectral shift as the strain increases from 0 to 1000 με for the device with ID=50 μm and L=55 μm, and (b) the response of the strain with different FP cavity lengths.
    Strain sensitivity of the sensor devices with different IDs and interferometer lengths.
    • Table 1. Main Fusion Splicing Parameters in the Experiments

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      Table 1. Main Fusion Splicing Parameters in the Experiments

      Splicer ParametersCleaning Arc TimeGapPromoting DistanceArc PowerPre-fuse TimeFuse Time
      Data20 ms15 μm20 μm10 bits100 ms500 ms
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    Xiaobei Zhang, Haiyang Shao, Haiyang Pan, Yong Yang, Huawen Bai, Fufei Pang, Tingyun Wang, "Simple capillary-based extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometer for strain sensing," Chin. Opt. Lett. 15, 070601 (2017)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Jan. 2, 2017

    Accepted: Mar. 24, 2017

    Published Online: Jul. 20, 2018

    The Author Email: Xiaobei Zhang (xbzhang@shu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL201715.070601

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