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Tian, K,Farrell, G,Wang, XF,Yang, WL,Xin, YF,Liang, HD,Lewis, E,Wang, PF
2017
August
Optics Express
Strain sensor based on gourd-shaped single-mode-multimode-single-mode hybrid optical fibre structure
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TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION HIGH-SENSITIVITY INTERFERENCE INTERFEROMETER DEVICES FILTER
25
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A fibre-optic strain sensor based on a gourd-shaped joint multimode fibre (MMF) sandwiched between two single-mode fibres (SMFs) is described both theoretically and experimentally. The cladding layers of the two MMFs are reshaped to form a hemisphere using an electrical arc method and spliced together, yielding the required gourd shape. The gourd-shaped section forms a Fabry-Perot cavity between the ends of two adjacent but non-contacting multimode fibres' core. The effectiveness of the multimode interference based on the Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) formed within the multimode inter-fibre section is greatly improved resulting in an experimentally determined strain sensitivity of -2.60 pm/mu epsilon over the range 0-1000 mu epsilon. The sensing characteristics for temperature and humidity of this optical fibre strain sensor are also investigated. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
10.1364/OE.25.018885
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