Distributed high-temperature pressure sensing using air-hole microstructural fibers

We present spatially resolved Rayleigh scattering measurements in different polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers for high-temperature pressure sensing. The pressure-induced birefringence in the fiber cores is interrogated using polarization-resolved frequency-swept interferometry. The pressure responses of a PM photonic crystal fiber and a twin-air-hole PM fiber are investigated for a pressure range of 0 to 13.8 MPa (0-2000 psi) at room temperature and at temperatures as high as 800 °C. The proposed sensing system provides, for the first time to our knowledge, a truly distributed pressure-sensing solution for high-temperature applications.     

Miniature fiber-optic high temperature sensor based on a hybrid structured Fabry-Perot interferometer

A miniature Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometric fiber-optic sensor suitable for high-temperature sensing is proposed and demonstrated. The sensor head consists of two FP cavities formed by fusion splicing a short hollow-core fiber and a piece of single-mode fiber at a photonic crystal fiber in series. The reflection spectra of an implemented sensor are measured at several temperatures and analyzed in the spatial frequency domain. The experiment shows that the thermal-optic effect of the cavity material is much more appreciable than its thermal expansion. The temperature measurements up to 1000 degrees C with a step of 50 degrees C confirm that it could be applicable as a high-temperature sensor.     

应用于液压传感的光子晶体光纤特性

为实现结构紧凑、高灵敏度的光纤压力(液压)传感器,提出了一种应用于液压传感的边孔结构光子晶体光纤.基于全矢量有限元方法,研究了传统光子晶体光纤和边孔结构光子晶体光纤的有效折射、模式等特性以及在液压情况下的应力和应力特性.根据光弹效应给出了传统光子晶体光纤和边孔结构光子晶体光纤在液压情况下的折射率变化特性.模拟结果表明边孔结构光子晶体光纤可以获得更大的液压传感灵敏度,增大边孔半径可以提高液压传感灵敏度,因此结构优化的边孔结构光子晶体光纤可以实现高灵敏度的光纤压力(液压)压力传感器.     

应用于液压传感的光子晶体光纤特性

为实现结构紧凑、高灵敏度的光纤压力(液压)传感器,提出了一种应用于液压传感的边孔结构光子晶体光纤.基于全矢量有限元方法,研究了传统光子晶体光纤和边孔结构光子晶体光纤的有效折射、模式等特性以及在液压情况下的应力和应力特性.根据光弹效应给出了传统光子晶体光纤和边孔结构光子晶体光纤在液压情况下的折射率变化特性.模拟结果表明边孔结构光子晶体光纤可以获得更大的液压传感灵敏度,增大边孔半径可以提高液压传感灵敏度,因此结构优化的边孔结构光子晶体光纤可以实现高灵敏度的光纤压力(液压)压力传感器.     

High-temperature sensor using a Fabry-Perot interferometer based on solid-core photonic crystal fiber

A micro Fabry-Perot interferometer(M-FPI) is constructed by splicing a short section of polarizationmaintaining photonic crystal fiber(PM-PCF) to an end-cleaved single-mode fiber with controllable offset. Due to the high effective optical path difference induced by the solid core of the PCF,the M-FPI has an ultrasmall cavity of approximately 110μm.The temperature sensitivity within a range from 33℃to approximately 600℃is measured to be 13.8 pm/℃,which shows good agreement with the theoretical result.This proposed sensor has the advantages of ultracompact size and high stability.Therefore,it is suitable for various space-limited sensing applications in harsh environments.     

用于液压传感的双芯光子晶体光纤

采用全矢量有限元方法进行光纤设计优化,得到横截面上失去两层空气洞的双芯光子晶体光纤,可用于液压传感.优化的双芯光子晶体光纤的模场半径和数值孔径与单模光纤基本一致,在优化的双芯光子晶体光纤和单模光纤之间有一个相对较低的熔接损耗.计算结果表明由模场半径和数值孔径导致的不匹配造成的总共损耗可低至0.026 dB,低于传统光子晶体光纤和单模光纤0.1 dB的直接熔接损耗.对基于20 cm双芯光子晶体光纤的液压传感器的性能进行研究,结果表明在0～500 MPa量程内的灵敏度为-1.6 pm/MPa.     

Optical refractometer based on large-core air-clad photonic crystal fibers

A large-core air-clad photonic crystal fiber-based sensing structure is described, which is sensitive to refractive index. The sensing head is based on multimodal interference, and relies on a single-mode/large-core air-clad photonic crystal fiber (PCF)/single-mode fiber configuration. Using two distinct large-core air-clad PCF geometries-one for refractive index measurement and the other for temperature compensation, it was possible to implement a sensing head sensitive to refractive index changes in water as induced by temperature variations. The results indicated the high sensitivity of this sensing head to refractive index variations of water, and a resolution of 3.4×10(-5) refractive index units could be achieved.     

Photonic crystal fiber tip interferometer for refractive index sensing

In this paper we present an interferometer based on photonic crystal fiber (PCF) tip ended with a solid silica-sphere for refractive index sensing. The sensor is fabricated by splicing one end of the holey PCF to a single mode fiber (SMF) and applying arc at the other end to form a solid sphere. The sensor has been experimentally tested for refractive index and temperature sensing by monitoring its wavelength shift. Measurement results show that the sensor has the resolution of the order of 8.7×10(-4) over the refractive index range of 1.33-1.40, and temperature sensitivity of the order of 10 pm/°C in the range of 20-100 °C.     

Optical sensing with photonic crystal fibers

A review of optical fiber sensing demonstrations based on photonic crystal fibers is presented. The text is organized in five main sections: the first three deal with sensing approaches relying on fiber Bragg gratings, long‐period gratings and interferometric structures; the fourth one reports applications of these fibers for gas and liquid sensing; finally, the last section focuses on the exploitation of nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibers for sensing.     

Lasing characteristics of strongly pumped Yb-doped photonic crystal fiber laser

A strongly pumped Yb-doped large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber (LMA-PCF) laser is analyzed. The lasing characteristics of an improved Fabry-Perot (F-P) cavity fiber laser using LMA-PCF are studied theoretically based on a rate equation model and the exact numerical solution of the rate equations is in excellent agreement with the experimental result.     

Numerical analysis of a photonic crystal fiber based on two polarized modes for biosensing applications

This paper presents a theoretical study on a photonic crystal fiber plasmonic refractive index biosensor. The proposed photonic crystal fiber sensor introduces the concept of simultaneous detection with the linearly polarized and radially polarized modes because the sensing performance of the sensor based on both modes is relatively high, which will be useful for selecting the modes to make the detection accurately. The sharp single resonant peaks of the linearly polarized mode and radially polarized mode, are stronger and more sensitive to the variation of analyte refractive index than that of any other polarized mode in this kind of photonic crystal fiber. For linearly polarized mode and radially polarized mode, the maximum sensitivities of 10448.5nm per refractive index unit and 8230.7nm per refractive index unit can be obtained, as well as 949.8 and 791.4 for figure of merits in the sensing range of 1.33-1.45, respectively. Compared with the conventional Au-metalized surface plasmon resonance sensors, our device is better and can be applied as a biosensor.     

Photonic crystal refractive index sensing based on sandwich structure

An ultracompact refractive index sensing based on the sandwich structure of photonic crystal is presented and demonstrated with solutions of water, methylsilicone and silicone. The performances of the sensor are analyzed theoretically by using Fabry-Perot cavity mode, the change in opposite direction between the transmission of the refractive index sensing and its quality factor is derived. The experimental results are consistent with the results of theoretical analysis.     

On the pre-amplified linear cavity multi-wavelength Brillioun-erbium fiber laser with low SBS threshold highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

An efficient multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser utilizing low stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is presented. A Fabry-Perot pre-amplified Brillouin pump configuration was used which consists of 100 m PCF and 10 m erbium doped fiber (EDF). Up to 28 output channels with SNR of more than 20 dB could be generated with modest pump power.     

基于椭球封闭空气腔的光纤复合法布里-珀罗结构折射率传感特性研究

提出了基于微椭球型空气腔的在线型光纤复合法布里-珀罗干涉结构,并对其折射率传感特性进行了研究.椭球型空气微腔是利用光纤熔接机对实芯光子晶体光纤和单模光纤以特定的熔接参数熔接形成.用高斯光束模型和ABCD法则分析了椭球型空气腔的腔内损耗,建立了电磁场在复合法布里-珀罗干涉结构中传播的物理模型.根据腔长比值的不同,环境折射率对干涉条纹的影响有对比度调制和波长调制,主要研究了一种波长调制型复合法布里-珀罗结构折射率传感器.仿真结果表明该折射率传感器在1—1.6范围内不出现折射率转折点;实验结果表明在1.333—1.466范围内,折射率灵敏度～37.088 nm·RIU-1,分辨率约为2.69×10-5.该光纤复合法布里-珀罗结构干涉条纹对比度高、体积小、成本低,用于折射率测量可靠性高、分辨率高、无折射率拐点、温度串扰小.     

Fabry-Perot optical fiber tip sensor for high temperature measurement

We propose a novel Fabry-Perot optical fiber tip sensor for high temperature measurement. The sensor consists of a short section of a special all-silica photonic crystal fiber spliced at one end to a silica single-mode fiber. Because of its all-silica structure, the sensor allows linear and stable measurements of temperature up to 1200 °C with a high sensitivity. The sensor is easy and inexpensive to fabricate and could find wide applications in mechanics, aeronautics, and metallurgy.     

基于空气孔微结构光纤的表面等离子体共振折射率传感器北大核心CSCD

提出了一种基于表面等离子体共振(SPR)效应增强的光子晶体光纤折射率传感器。该传感器结构通过光纤熔接机拼接光子晶体光纤(PCF),在光子晶体光纤中间引入一个空气孔形成PCF-空气孔-PCF的光纤传感结构,随后使用磁控溅射镀膜工艺在其表面沉积一层薄金膜制备而成。实验探究了折射率及温度对传感器的响应。结果表明,在1.333~1.389的折射率范围内,所提出的传感器的平均折射率灵敏度为2 142.52 nm,且测量线性度为0.981,品质因子约13.10。实验结果表明该传感器对温度不敏感。相比于无空气孔的PCF传感结构,引入的空气孔增强了SPR效应,使得传感器拥有良好的共振峰深度。得益于上述优势,该类型传感器有望在生物医学、环境监测等领域得到应用。     

Fabry-Perot etalons using colloidal photonic crystal mirrors

Fabry-Perot etalons have been fabricated with 3D colloidal photonic crystal mirrors. The colloid films were optimized for high reflection and low loss to provide good finesse values in the 1200-1700 nm spectral range. A cavity quality factor of 2400 and a finesse of 8 together with sharp 0.5 nm wide resonance transmission peaks are reported that attest to the relatively good optical quality of the three-dimensionally structured films and the promise of self-assembly colloidal crystal chemistry in providing novel microporous optical interferometers for potential applications such as environmental and biological sensing.     

一种胶体光子晶体修饰的光纤

设计了一种胶体光子晶体修饰的光纤. 采用恒温快速蒸发法直接在经切割刀处理后的光纤端面生长胶体晶体,再与另一根切割后的光纤在毛细玻璃管中完成对接,制备成胶体光子晶体修饰的光纤. 用扫描电子显微镜和光谱分析仪对样品的形貌、结构以及光学特性进行分析. 实验结果表明,粒径为640 nm、体积分数约为0.5%的SiO₂胶体微球溶液在60 ℃的情况下沉积,大约12 h后可得到质量较高的胶体光子晶体. 在SEM下,观察到端面的胶体晶体为面心立方(fcc)结构. 透射光谱证明,该结构在(111)面上     

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。     

A cascaded photonic crystal fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer formed by extra electric arc discharges

In this paper, a cascaded Mach–Zehnder interferometer based on a photonic crystal fiber is reported. It is demonstrated that by applying a small dose of extra arc discharge to the photonic crystal fiber sensing part which is spliced to lead-in and lead-out single-mode fibers with core offset, the in-line Mach–Zehnder interferometer could be simply cascaded. From the analysis of Fourier transformed spatial spectra and the response tests as a sensor, it is shown that such a cascaded interferometer could effectively broaden the utilizable spectral shift range for a measured value.