Intrinsic Fabry-Pe´rot fiber sensor for temperature and strain measurements

Author

Huang, Zhengyu ; Zhu, Yizheng ; Chen, Xiaopei ; Wang, Anbo

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2403

Lastpage

2405

Abstract

This letter presents an intrinsic Fabry-Pe´rot interferometric sensor fabricated by splicing a section of multimode fiber in between two single-mode fibers. The fabrication process only involves fusion splicing and cleaving. The sensor is analyzed and the issues in sensor fabrication are discussed. The sensor temperature and strain measurement performance is evaluated. The sensor may find its application in quasi-distributed sensing due to its low insertion loss.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; distributed sensors; fibre optic sensors; optical fibre fabrication; splicing; strain measurement; strain sensors; temperature measurement; temperature sensors; Fabry-Perot fiber sensor; cleaving; fusion splicing; quasidistributed sensing; strain measurement; temperature measurement; Capacitive sensors; Insertion loss; Mirrors; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Splicing; Strain measurement; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Distributed detection; Fabry–PÉrot (F-P) interferometers; optical fiber measurement applications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.857236

Filename

1522334