Tilted fiber Bragg grating sensors

Optical fiber gratings have developed into a mature technology with a wide range of applications in various areas, including physical sensing for temperature, strain, acoustic waves and pressure. All of these applications rely on the perturbation of the period or refractive index of a grating inscribed in the fiber core as a transducing mechanism between a quantity to be measured and the optical spectral response of the fiber grating. This paper presents a relatively recent variant of the fiber grating concept, whereby a small tilt of the grating fringes causes coupling of the optical power from the core mode into a multitude of cladding modes, each with its own wavevector and mode field shape. The main consequence of doing so is that the differential response of the modes can then be used to multiply the sensing modalities available for a single fiber grating and also to increase the sensor resolution by taking advantage of the large amount of data available. In particular, the temperature cross‐sensitivity and power source fluctuation noise inherent in all fiber grating designs can be completely eliminated by referencing all the spectral measurements to the wavelength and power level of the core mode back‐reflection. The mode resonances have a quality factor of 10⁵, and they can be observed in reflection or transmission. A thorough review of experimental and theoretical results will show that tilted fiber Bragg gratings can be used for high resolution refractometry, surface plasmon resonance applications, and multiparameter physical sensing (strain, vibration, curvature, and temperature).     

体布拉格光栅滤波片及其光谱成像应用

利用厚体布拉格光栅的波长选择特性对目标光场进行窄带滤波,是实现高光谱成像的一种新途径。基于严格耦合波理论,设计了体布拉格光栅结构,探索了厚体布拉格光栅的制作工艺,搭建系统光路验证了体布拉格光栅的光谱成像能力。研究结果表明：要获得较窄滤波谱宽,需要提高体布拉格光栅的厚度周期比,并严格控制入射光束发散角;刻写光束质量、震动和偏振会极大地影响制作的光栅条纹面质量,需要从优化写入光的光束均匀性、采用防震措施以及调整两刻写光束偏振一致性等方面优化刻写过程,以提高光栅的衍射效率和质量;验证了体布拉格光栅滤波片进行空间二维面阵成像的能力,宽谱光源透射条件下,通过对入射光束进行准直,滤波谱宽5 nm左右,空间分辨率约4 lines/mm;漫反射条件下,使用体布拉格光栅对进行色散补偿,能够实现较为清晰的成像,空间分辨率约4.9 lines/mm。     

Highly efficient tunable fiber Bragg grating filters using multilayer piezoelectric transducers

We realized a wavelength tunable optical filter based on a fiber Bragg grating using multilayer piezoelectric transducers (MLP). The Bragg wavelength of the filter can be easily tuned in proportion to an applied low DC voltage. The tuning range efficiency was as high as 0.2 nm/V. We realized a 10 nm Bragg wavelength shift by applying as low as 50 V to the MLP. The MLP was also used in a higher order dispersion equalizer which consists of a pair of nonlinearly chirped gratings. A zero dispersion wavelength shift of 7 nm was successfully realized for the equalizer.     

一种新型的Bragg光纤光栅电流传感器的设计

提出了一种新型的光纤光栅高压电流传感器。该系统由Bragg光纤光栅电流测量部分和温度补偿部分组成。在测量过程中,采用了匹配光栅解调方法,其动态测量范围比通常的干涉法光纤电流传感器大,且系统不受外界电磁干扰的影响,可实现高压电流的在线测量。     

埋入式光纤光栅应变测量系统的设计

埋入式光纤光栅应变传感器作为大型土木结构健康监测的智能元件具有很好的发展前景。讨论了埋入式光纤光栅应变传感器的传感机理，设计了埋入式光纤光栅应变测量系统。从力学角度阐述了光栅传感探头的结构和制作工艺。采用可调谐F-P滤波器对光栅信号进行解调，解决了应变与温度交叉敏感问题。系统对应变的测量范围为0～1500με。通过理论分析证实了系统方案的可行性。     

调频连续波分布式光纤布拉格光栅复用系统

研究了利用调频连续波(FMCW)技术对分布式光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)复用系统进行寻址的基本原理;仿真分析了FBG传感器复用距离是系统最小分辨距离的整数倍或非整数倍时,对频谱信号的影响;搭建了基于FMCW的FBG复用系统实验平台,当传感距离1000m时,分别验证了不同扫描周期与复用系统差频信号的线性关系,及不同扫频范围与系统差频信号的线性关系。实验结果表明:FBG复用距离是系统最小分辨距离整数倍时,在测量距离1100 m范围内,系统测量最大误差为243 Hz,最大相对误差小于5%,可以实现FBG传感器的地址查询功能。     

调频连续波分布式光纤布拉格光栅复用系统

研究了利用调频连续波(FMCW)技术对分布式光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)复用系统进行寻址的基本原理;仿真分析了FBG传感器复用距离是系统最小分辨距离的整数倍或非整数倍时,对频谱信号的影响;搭建了基于FMCW的FBG复用系统实验平台,当传感距离1000 m时,分别验证了不同扫描周期与复用系统差频信号的线性关系,及不同扫频范围与系统差频信号的线性关系。实验结果表明：FBG复用距离是系统最小分辨距离整数倍时,在测量距离1100 m范围内,系统测量最大误差为243 Hz,最大相对误差小于5%,可以实现FBG传感器的地址查询功能。     

差动式光纤Bragg光栅沉降仪

研制了一种测量地表沉降变形的差动式光纤Bragg光栅沉降仪。等强度悬臂梁的底部固定于工地上的固定平台,顶端通过刃口、挂钩和连杆与沉降墩连接。在该测量中,沉降仪将沉降墩的地沉降量转换为悬臂梁的挠度。悬臂梁作用粘贴于其上下表面的光纤Bragg光栅产生应变,即传感光栅的Bragg波长产生了移位。对粘贴在悬臂梁上、下表面的传感光栅的Bragg波长进行差动运算,实现温度补偿,减小人为和气候因素的影响。在挂钩和沉降敦之间采用了螺旋结构连接,可通过调整螺旋或更换不同长度的挂钩来调节传感器的测量范围。荷载实验表明,该沉降仪的测量精度为0.004mm,低于变形测量中的科研级测量精度0.01~0.05mm。     

Four-element fiber Bragg grating acceleration sensor array

A four-element fiber Bragg grating acceleration sensor array is presented in this paper. The system combines an unbalanced Mach–Zehnder interferometer and three coarse wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs). The totally passive scheme has the advantages of high operation frequency and loose requirements for the working environment. An acceleration resolution of better than for the four channels is achieved.     

温度不敏感的光纤布拉格高压传感技术研究

 为了实现单一光纤光栅对压强精确测量,设计了一种温度不敏感的光纤布拉格高压传感器。对该传感器的温度特性及压强响应特性进行研究。给出了该传感器的结构及封装方法。从理论上分析了该传感器的温度去敏原理,推导了该压强传感器的光纤布拉格光栅中心波长与压强的关系,得到了该传感器的压强响应灵敏度的解析表达。通过实验分析传感器的温度特性及压强响应。实验结果表明,在21℃～260.8℃的范围内,实现了温度补偿,平均波长漂移量为0.75 pm/℃,在0～44 MPa的范围内,获得了-0.054 8 nm/MPa的压强响应灵敏度,是裸光纤布拉格光栅压力响应灵敏度的18.27倍。该传感器的压强响应具有很好的线性和重复性,实验值与理论值吻合得很好,该传感器能够通过一只光纤布拉格光栅实现压强的精确测量。     

光纤布拉格光栅及其应用

近年来新型的紫外激光写入的光纤布拉格光栅元件（ＦＢＧ）以其具有直接写人光纤芯区、插入损耗小、易于全光集成及波长选择性好、传感信息对波长绝对编码等优点,成为国内外光纤技术领域的研究热点。该论文综述了ＦＢＧ制作技术的进展,介绍和比较了各种制作方法的优缺点,对ＦＢＧ在光纤通讯、光纤传感器等方面的应用前景进行了分析和说明,结果表明ＦＢＧ将对整个光纤技术领域产生重要的影响。     

Demonstration of differential phase-shift keying demodulation at 10 Gbit/s optimal fiber Bragg grating filters

Optimal demodulation of differential phase-shift keying signals at 10 Gbit/s is experimentally demonstrated using a specially designed structured fiber Bragg grating composed by Fabry-Perot coupled cavities. Bit-error-rate measurements show that, as compared with a conventional Gaussian-shaped filter, our demodulator gives approximately 2.8 dB performance improvement.     

传送带类问题归类分析

本文中的传送带类问题是指以皮带传送装置(传送带)为载体而构建的各类物理问题．传送带类问题丰富多彩，能够很好地再现物理知识和考查各种能力，因而值得我们分类探究．     

激光多普勒测速精度分析

激光多普勒测速（ＬａｓｅｒＤｏｐｐｌｅｒＶｅｌｏｃｉｍｅｔｒｙ）以其高精度、使用方便而在速度测试领域得到广泛的应用。人们也因此而忽视了对影响其测试精度的因素进行系统的分析。为此,本文主要对影响激光多普勒测速精度的因素作了具体分析。主要分析了有限渡越时间、测控体中的示踪粒子、光电探测器、激光束定位等因素,并提出了在具体实验时的注意事项。     

A novel fiber Bragg grating high-temperature sensor

A novel fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor for the measurement of high temperature is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The interrogation system of the sensor system is simple, low cost but effective. The sensor head is comprised of one FBG and two metal rods. The lengths of the rods are different from each other. The coefficients of thermal expansion of the rods are also different from each other. The FBG will be strained by the sensor head when the temperature to be measured changes. The temperature is measured basis of the wavelength shifts of the FBG induced by strain. A dynamic range of 0–800 °C and a resolution of 1 °C have been obtained by the sensor system. The experiment results agree with theoretical analyses.     

Motion characteristics of Bragg grating solitons in rectangle-apodized fiber Bragg gratings

We introduce both concave and convex rectangular apodizations in the middle of fiber Bragg gratings to achieve slow light. Based on the nonlinear coupled mode equations (NLCMEs), the transmission characteristics of grating solitons in rectangle-apodized gratings are numerically simulated and analyzed. The rectangular apodization can change the grating coupling coefficient to give rise to slow and capture the solitons in gratings. The effects of the soliton energy parameters, the width of rectangular apodization and the variation of the coupling coefficient on the soliton transmission are presented. The results show that, the velocity of solitons can be slowed down, and the capability to capture a soliton depends on the energy of input solitons, coupling coefficient, and the rectangular width. Two kinds of soliton capture methods are proposed and compared with each other.     

Development of an optical fiber hydrophone with fiber Bragg grating

A new type of optical fiber hydrophone is constructed with a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based on the intensity modulation of laser light in an FBG under the influence of sound pressure. The FBG hydrophone shows linearity, with dynamic range about 70 dB. It can measure amplitude and phase of an acoustic field in real time, and operates in a wide range of acoustic frequency, at least from 1 kHz to 3 MHz. No signal distortion is observed in the detected signal. Because of the simplicity in its operating principle and geometry, an FBG hydrophone is expected to be an acoustic sensor of high practicality compared to a conventional optical fiber hydrophone.     

基于叠栅的Bragg光纤光栅综合方法的研究

提出一种新的光纤光栅综合方法，将Bragg光纤光栅的层剥离综合算法与光纤叠栅理论结合起来，层剥离综合算法根据需要的反射谱计算出光纤光栅的折射率分布，用多个带切趾函数的光纤叠栅来拟合这个折射率分布，通过改变各叠栅中的相关参数，可以得到适合需要的反射谱，相对误差一般小于4.0%。该方法具有简单、快速、易于实现的特点。     

Highly sensitive distributed liquid-droplet sensor based on evanescent-wave linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating

We propose a highly-sensitive distributed addressable liquid-droplet sensor based on an evanescent-wave linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating (LCFBG). Due to liquid-droplet-induced increase of the localized effective refractive index, a transmission window is generated within the original reflection stopband of LCFBG. Utilizing the spatial encoding feature of Bragg wavelength in LCFBG and spectrum properties of the created passband, both numerical and experimental results demonstrate that the position, size, and refractive index information of multiple distributed discrete liquid-droplets can be detected simultaneously.     

Oscillation wavelength of fiber Bragg grating semiconductor lasers

Based on the physical fact that a laser containing a gain medium with homogenous line broadening oscillates at the wavelength which requires the smallest threshold gain due to the mode competition effect, after taking into account the wavelength-depended reflectivity distribution profile of a fiber Bragg grating, the oscillation wavelength λ_l of fiber Bragg grating semiconductor lasers has been investigated theoretically. The results show that the laser oscillation wavelength λ_B is not fixed at the Bragg reflection wavelength λ_l of fiber Bragg grating, and the offset between λ_B and λ_l depends on the reflectivity distribution profile of fiber Bragg grating and the gain profile of semiconductor gain medium.