基于微结构光纤和游标效应的高灵敏度压力传感器

结构健康监测、医疗诊断分析、气压检测以及军事工程应用等领域对压力的高灵敏度探测要求越来越高。光纤传感器由于其体积小、灵敏度高及抗电磁干扰等优点被广泛应用于压力测量。针对石英材料的杨氏模量较高,传统实芯光纤压力传感器的受压变形量较小,导致测量灵敏度很难提高。文章提出了一种基于游标效应的双Sagnac干涉环式光纤压力传感器。传感器由保偏光子晶体光纤(Polarization Maintaining Fiber, PM-PCF)作为敏感单元实现Sagnac干涉并通过不同PCF长度实现针对压力增敏特性的游标效应。传感器分别采用在单模光纤中嵌入PM-PCF形成传感器的参考单元和压力敏感单元,并对Sagnac环的感压部分进行封装,通过实验对并联型Sagnac环压力传感器的压力特性进行研究。实验结果表明在压力范围为0～2.4MPa内,压力传感器最大灵敏度为-54.491nm/MPa,分辨率为0.367kPa。相比无游标效应的Sagnac环压力传感器,其压力灵敏度放大了16.7倍。此外,传感器具有制造简单、结构坚固、运行稳定的优点,为高灵敏度压力传感器提供了一种替代设计方案。     

Designing of a polarization beam splitter for the wavelength of 1310 nm on dual-core photonic crystal fiber with high birefringence and double-zero dispersion

We have proposed a novel kind of photonic crystal fiber which contains two asymmetric cores. The bireti＇ingence and the dispersion are numerically analyzed based on finite element method when the size of the air holes and the pitch of two adjacent air holes are changed. It is shown that the proposed photonic crystal fiber has high birefringence up to the order of 10-2 and double-zero dispersion points are at the wavelengths of 1310 nm and 800 rim, simultaneously. At the same time, the normalized power and the extinction ratios of the proposed photonic crystal fiber have been simulated. It is demonstrated that, at the wavelength of 1310 rim, the x-polarized mode and the y-polarized mode are separated when the propagation distance is 2.481 ram.     

基于游标效应的双芯光子晶体光纤温度传感器

设计了一种基于双芯光纤耦合效应和游标效应的高灵敏度温度传感器,传感器是由2个相差一定长度的双芯光子晶体光纤和单模光纤级联构成。双芯光子晶体光纤通过级联实现游标效应,同时对纤芯中间的气孔填充乙醇实现温度传感。仿真结果表明,该温度传感器在35 ℃～45 ℃范围内的平均温度灵敏度可达?20.37 nm/℃。与单纯依靠双芯光子晶体光纤能量耦合效应的传感器相比,该传感器的温度检测灵敏度提高了10倍。     

Designing analysis of the polarization beam splitter in two communication bands based on a gold-filled dual-core photonic crystal fiber

We design a novel kind of polarization beam splitter based on a gold-filled dual-core photonic crystal fiber （DC-PCF）. Owing to filling with two gold wires in this DC-PCF, its coupling characteristics can be changed greatly by the second-order surface plasmon polariton （SPP） and the resonant coupling between the surface plasmon modes and the fiber-core guided modes can enhance the directional power transfer in the two fiber-cores. Numerical results by using the finite element method show the extinction ratio at the wavethlengths of 1.327 μm and 1.55 μm can reach -58 dB and -60 dB and the bandwidths as the extinction ratio better than -12 dB are about 54 nm and 47 nm, respectively. Compared with the gold-unfilled DC-PCF, a 1.746-mm-long gold-filled DC-PCF is better applied to the polarization beam splitter in the two communication bands of λ = 1.327 μm and 1.55 μm.