Photonic Sensors, Volume. 3, Issue 2, 118(2013)

Strain Sensitivity Enhancement in Suspended Core Fiber Tapers

Ricardo M. ANDRé1,2, Susana O. SILVA1,2, Martin BECKER3, Kay SCHUSTER3, M. ROTHARDT3, H. BARTELT3, Manuel B. MARQUES1,2, and Orlando FRAZAO1、*
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  • 1INESC Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
  • 2Departamento de Física e Astronomia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
  • 3IPHT, Institute for Photonic Technology Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany
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    Suspended core fiber tapers with different cross sections (with diameters from 70 μm to 120 μm) are produced by filament heating. Before obtaining the taper, the spectral behavior of the suspended core fiber is a multimode interference structure. When the taper is made, an intermodal interference between a few modes is observed. This effect is clearly visible for low taper core dimensions. Since the core and cladding do not collapse, two taper regions exist, one in the core and the other in the cladding. The cladding taper does not affect the light transmission, only the core is reduced to a microtaper. The spectral response of the microtaper based-suspended core fiber is similar to a beat of two interferometers. The strain is applied to the microtaper, and with the reduction in the transverse area, an increase in sensitivity is observed. When the taper is immersed in a liquid with a different index of refraction or subjected to temperature variations, no spectral change occurs.

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    Ricardo M. ANDRé, Susana O. SILVA, Martin BECKER, Kay SCHUSTER, M. ROTHARDT, H. BARTELT, Manuel B. MARQUES, Orlando FRAZAO. Strain Sensitivity Enhancement in Suspended Core Fiber Tapers[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2013, 3(2): 118

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    Paper Information

    Category: Regular

    Received: Feb. 2, 2012

    Accepted: May. 18, 2012

    Published Online: Oct. 24, 2013

    The Author Email: FRAZAO Orlando (ofrazao@inescporto.pt)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-012-0059-2

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