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博士生导师
硕士生导师
性别:女
毕业院校:大连理工大学
学位:博士
所在单位:物理学院
学科:光学工程. 光学
办公地点:物理与光电工程学院235
联系方式:wpeng@dlut.edu.cn
电子邮箱:wpeng@dlut.edu.cn
A reflective fiber-optic refractive index sensor based on multimode interference in a coreless silica fiber
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论文类型:期刊论文
发表时间:2015-04-01
发表刊物:OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
收录刊物:SCIE、EI、Scopus
卷号:340
页面范围:50-55
ISSN号:0030-4018
关键字:Optical fiber sensor; Multimode interference (MMI); Refractive index sensing; Core less silica fiber; End-reflection structure
摘要:A reflective fiber-optic refractive index (RI) sensor based on multimode interference (MMI) is presented and investigated in this paper. The sensor is made by splicing a small section of coreless silica fiber (CSF) to the standard single mode fiber (SMF). A wide-angle beam propagation method (WA-BPM) is employed for numerical simulation and design of the proposed RI sensor. Based on the simulation results, a RI sensor with a length of 1.7 cm of CSF is fabricated and experimentally studied. Experimental results show that the characteristic wavelength shift has an approximately linear relationship with the RI of the sample. A sensitivity of 141 nm/RIU (refractive index unit) and a resolution of 2.8 x 10(-5) are obtained in the RI range from 1.33 to 138. As the RI value is higher than 1.38, the sensitivity of the sensor increase rapidly as the RI increase and a maximum sensitivity of 1561 nm/RIU can be achieved, corresponding to a resolution of 2.6 x 10(-6). The experimental results fit well with the numerical simulation results. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.