Stability of erbium-doped fiber laser for high pressure measurement: Ring vs linear cavity

Author

Abdullah, Fairuz ; Idris, Sumayyah Mohd ; Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder ; Jamaludin, Md Zaini

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Univ. Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

13-14 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

307

Lastpage

309

Abstract

The application of optical fiber sensor in fields such as heavy industries has to greater extent become very important as the optical sensors is immune to EMI. This paper presented a stable high pressure sensor using an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL). The pressure sensor head is made of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) encased in stainless steel housing to withstand high pressure of up to 10bar. The stability of the sensing system is measured over 30 minutes and the result shows about 1.50% and 0.41% variation of peak output power for ring and linear respectively. In addition, the wavelength variation for ring is 1.16% and there is no significant variation linear configuration.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; fibre optic sensors; high-pressure effects; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; pressure measurement; pressure sensors; JkJk:Er; erbium-doped fiber laser; fiber Bragg grating; high pressure measurement; laser stability; linear cavity; linear configuration; optical fiber sensor; pressure sensor; ring cavity; stainless steel housing; wavelength variation; fiber bragg grating; fiber laser; high pressure sensing system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research and Development (SCOReD), 2010 IEEE Student Conference on

Conference_Location

Putrajaya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8647-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCORED.2010.5704022

Filename

5704022