A side-hole fiber surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor is proposed and numerically analyzed to solve the cross-sensitivity problem of temperature and magnetic field. In the side-hole fiber SPR sensor, the side-holes I and II are filled with magnetic fluid and a mixture of ethanol–glycerin, respectively, resulting in a loss spectrum with two channels. Each channel has different sensing characteristics. When the external magnetic field intensity increases, the magnetic field sensitivities of channels I and II are 1.098 and −0.018 nm / Oe, respectively. Moreover, with the increasing temperature, the temperature sensitivities of channels I and II are −5.909 and −4.211 nm / ° C, respectively. Therefore, the variations of magnetic field intensity and temperature can be simultaneously measured by detecting resonant wavelengths of channels I and II of side-hole fiber SPR effects, resulting in the influence of temperature in a side-hole fiber SPR magnetic field sensor being eliminated. The side-hole fiber SPR sensor has obvious advantages of compact structure and high sensitivity, and it also has solved the problem of liquid storage glassware to compact the structure of the fiber SPR sensor further.
Modulation bandwidth and frequency chirping of the optical injection-locked (OIL) microring laser (MRL) in the cascaded configuration are investigated. The unidirectional operation of the MRL under strong injection allows simple and cost-saving monolithic integration of the OIL system on one chip as it does not need the use of isolators between the master and slave lasers. Two cascading schemes are discussed in detail by focusing on the tailorable modulation response. The chip-to-power ratio of the cascaded optical injection-locked configuration has decreased by up to two orders of magnitude, compared with the single optical injection-locked configuration.
A simple fiber-optic sensor based on a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) embedded in a fiber modal interferometer (MI) for simultaneous measurements of temperature and strain is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The fiber MI is constructed by splicing two sections of the no-core fiber (NCF) between the single-mode fibers. Due to the different responses of the NCF-based MI and the FBG to the same temperature and strain, the discrimination between temperature and strain can be easily achieved. For a 0.01-nm wavelength resolution, the resolution of the sensor is 0.216°C and 6.75 με in temperature and strain, respectively.
An optical single sideband (OSSB) modulation radio over a fiber system, by using an acousto-optic filter (AOF), is proposed and demonstrated. In the AOF, a uniform fiber Bragg grating is etched and modulated by an axially propagating acoustic wave. Due to the acousto-optic superlattice modulation, two secondary reflection peaks, centered on the primary reflection peak, are generated. In the scheme, an optical double-sideband signal passes though the AOF to realize OSSB modulation. Because the reflect depth of the primary peak is much deeper than those of the secondary peaks, the carrier experiences higher attenuation than the upper sideband, which means the carrier-to-sideband ratio (CSR) can be optimized at the same time. We demonstrate this scheme via simulations, and successfully reduce the CSR from 9.73 to 2.9 dB. As a result, the receiving sensitivity improved from −23.43 to −31.18 dBm at BER of 10 −9 with 30 km long SMF.
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