| Ye Cao,Yong-wei Pei,Yin-fei Yang,Zheng-rong Tong.Study on the sensing characteristics of a local micro-structured long period fiber grating[J].Optoelectronics Letters,2014,10(2):129-132 |
| Study on the sensing characteristics of a local micro-structured long period fiber grating |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | Ye Cao | Key Laboratory of Film Electronics and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China | | | Yong-wei Pei | Key Laboratory of Film Electronics and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China | peiyongwei@126.com | | Yin-fei Yang | Key Laboratory of Film Electronics and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China | | | Zheng-rong Tong | Key Laboratory of Film Electronics and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China | |
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| Abstract: |
| A simple and effective method employing a local micro-structured long period fiber grating (LMS-LPFG) for the simultaneous measurement of temperature and refractive index is proposed and investigated experimentally. The LMS-LPFG is formed by using the partial etching technique with hydrofluoric (HF) acid in a standard LPFG, in which there are discontinuities in the effective refractive index of cladding modes. Similar to the phase shift theory, a narrow passband and two stopbands are formed. The temperature and the surrounding refractive index (SRI) characteristics of the two stopbands and passband are studied. The temperature sensitivities of the two stopbands and passband are 0.05 nm/°C approximately. The SRI sensitivity of passband (?61.56 nm/RIU) is bigger than that of the two stopbands (?35.62 nm/RIU). Thus, with the sensitive matrix, we can simultaneously measure the changes of temperature and refractive index. |
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| This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No.61107052）, and the Tianjin University＇s Science and Technology Development Fund Project （No.2012）. |
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