Properties of a fibre optic strain sensor in the configuration of a Mach-Zehnder modal interferometer with a polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibre

• Autorzy: Kaczmarek C.

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DOI

10.24425/119563

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper presents the properties of a strain sensor, which was made using the micro hole collapse method and operates in the configuration of a Mach-Zehnder modal interferometer with a PM-1550-01 polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibre. The sensor’s transfer curve was determined analytically. Its strain sensitivity, determined from measurements, decreases slightly with increasing wavelength and is in a range from -2.01 to -2.23 pm/με in the wavelength range 1520-1580 nm. Based on the Fourier analysis of the wavelength spectrum of the constructed sensor, the difference of the group refractive indices of the core and the cladding of the photonic crystal fibre was determined, which are in a range from 7.45·10^-3 to 1.01·10^-2. The temperature sensitivity of the sensor, determined on the basis of measurements performed in a range from 23 to 60°C, is positive and equals 5.9 pm/K.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

photonic crystal fibre; modal interferometer; temperature sensitivity

• Wydawca: Komitet Metrologii i Aparatury Naukowej PAN
• Czasopismo: Metrology and Measurement Systems
• Rocznik: 2018
• Tom: Vol. 25, nr 2
• Strony: 417--424
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 14 poz., rys., wykr., wzory

Twórcy

autor

Kaczmarek C.

• Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nadbystrzycka 38A, 20-619 Lublin, Poland

Bibliografia

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Uwagi

PL

Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2018).