Loop effect on Long-Period Fiber Gratings produced by electric arc

Author

Estudillo-Ayala, J.M. ; Hernández-García, J.C. ; Mata-Chávez, R.I. ; Rojas-Laguna, R. ; Trejo-Duran, M. ; Vargas-Rodriguez, E. ; Alvarado-Méndez, E. ; Andrade-Lucio, J.A. ; Sukhoivanov, I.A.

Author_Institution

Div. de Ingenierias, Univ. de Guanajuato, Salamanca, Mexico

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

This article presents the fabrication of Long Period Gratings in Optical Fiber (LPFGs) applied to the sensing loops. In implementing the manufacturing method used a commercial splicer fiber optic (FiTel S-175), capable of being programmed to a short section of standard optical fiber (SMF28) is taken at intervals between shots in a range from 400μm to of 650μm. The LPFGs Being able to obtain through attenuation bands above 20 dB, while the wavelength of central attenuation is close to 1550nm. We shows the experimental scheme to measure curvatures with diameters ranging between 12 and 13.1cm, having a linear variation of peak output cut at the LPFGs with tuning of 17nm.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; arcs (electric); fibre optic sensors; optical fibre fabrication; optical tuning; splicing; attenuation bands; commercial splicer fiber optics; electric arc; long-period fiber gratings; loop effect; optical tuning; sensing loops; size 12 cm to 13.1 cm; standard optical fiber; wavelength 400 mum to 650 mum; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical refraction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling (LFNM), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kharkov

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-811-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LFNM.2011.6145039

Filename

6145039