Refractive index and temperature sensor based on optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer with trapezoid cone

Wenlin Gao; Weihua Zhang; Zhengrong Tong; Yimei Zhong; Juan Qin; Lifang Xue

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.5.057102

9 May 2019 Refractive index and temperature sensor based on optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer with trapezoid cone

Wenlin Gao, Weihua Zhang, Zhengrong Tong, Yimei Zhong, Juan Qin, Lifang Xue

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 5, 057102 (May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.5.057102

Abstract

An optical fiber sensor for simultaneous measurement of refractive index (RI) and temperature is achieved by using an optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with two core-offset trapezoid cone structures, in which part of the core mode light will be coupled into cladding modes when passing through the first trapezoid cone and the two parts of light will combine in the second one and interfere with each other over there. The transmission spectrum would vary with the RI and the temperature. The experimental data show that the RI sensitivities of the two interference valleys are −35.93 and −51.14 nm / RIU, respectively. The temperature sensitivities of them are 0.05 and 0.04 nm / ° C, respectively. Therefore, it can be realized to gauge the RI and the temperature simultaneously. The proposed sensor can also be applied to chemistry and biology which has broad application prospects.

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Wenlin Gao, Weihua Zhang, Zhengrong Tong, Yimei Zhong, Juan Qin, and Lifang Xue "Refractive index and temperature sensor based on optical fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer with trapezoid cone," Optical Engineering 58(5), 057102 (9 May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.5.057102

Received: 13 January 2019; Accepted: 10 April 2019; Published: 9 May 2019

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