Title :
Highly sensitive Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on the dispersion response of fiber resonators
Author :
Zhang, Yundong ; Yu, Changqiu ; Wang, Jinfang ; Zhang, Jing ; Wang, Kaiyang ; Yuan, Ping
Author_Institution :
Nat. Key Lab. of Tunable Laser Technol., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
Abstract :
A highly sensitive Mach-Zehnder (M-Z) interferometer coupled with nested fiber ring resonators is theoretically demonstrated. The experimental results show that the sensitivity of the interferometer is significantly enhanced by strong dispersive response of resonators and reach its maximum value at resonance, which agree well with theoretical predictions.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; fibre optic sensors; optical resonators; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; fiber resonator dispersion response; nested fiber ring resonator; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber theory; Optical interferometry; Optical ring resonators; Sagnac interferometers; Sensitivity; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; dispersive; fast light; fiber ring resonator; sensitivity; slow light;
Conference_Titel :
Optoelectronics and Microelectronics (ICOM), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Changchun, Jilin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2638-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICoOM.2012.6316252
