Two-core optical fiber and its sensing characteristics

Xue Wang; Shigang Zhao; Libo Yuan

doi:10.1117/12.755662

26 November 2007 Two-core optical fiber and its sensing characteristics

Xue Wang, Shigang Zhao, Libo Yuan

Proceedings Volume 6830, Advanced Sensor Systems and Applications III; 68301A (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.755662
Event: Photonics Asia 2007, 2007, Beijing, China

Abstract

Two-core fiber is a specially designed fiber which contains a pair of parallel fiber core surrounding a cladding with diameter 125μm. A multi-parameters measurement technique that uses a two-core fiber as the sensing element has been proposed and demonstrated in this paper. The theory and the structure design are also introduced. The two-core fiber acts as a two-beam interferometer, in which phase differences is a function of curvature, and the twisting angle in the plane containing the cores results in the shift of the far-field interferometric fringe pattern. This sensor can be used to inspect the structural health monitoring, the measuring angle and the distinguishing direction. Compared to the traditional multi-beam interferometer, this sensor has the such characteristics as small size, good interference, high definition and steady fringe pattern. It does not need considering the effect of the environment temperature. A low-coherence laser diode at wavelength 650nm illuminating the two-cores and the interferogram pattern in the far-field is recorded by a CCD camera. The model of two-core fiber sensor has been established theoretically. The relationship between the far-field fringe pattern intensity distribution and the changes due to the radius of the curvature and the twisting angle are given, and the experimental results also confirmed this.

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Xue Wang, Shigang Zhao, and Libo Yuan "Two-core optical fiber and its sensing characteristics", Proc. SPIE 6830, Advanced Sensor Systems and Applications III, 68301A (26 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.755662

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