Polarimetric Fiber Laser Sensor for Hydrostatic Pressure
Applied Optics, Vol. 43, Issue 1, pp. 41-48 (2004)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.43.000041
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Abstract
A polarimetric Fabry-Perot fiber laser sensor for fluid pressure up to 100 MPa is investigated. The fluid acts on one of two elliptical-core fiber sections in the laser cavity, producing a shift in the differential phase of the two orthogonal polarization modes and thus a variation in the beat frequencies of the corresponding longitudinal laser modes. The second fiber section, with a 90° offset in the core orientation, compensates for temperature-induced phase shifts. The dispersion in the birefringent fiber Bragg grating reflectors is employed to remove the near degeneracy of the polarization mode beat frequencies of a given order and to improve substantially the resolution of the sensor to a few parts in 106 of the free spectral range. Further investigations address the effect of the fluid on the integrity of the fiber, the influence of various fiber coatings on the sensor response, and the intrinsic stability of erbium-doped and undoped sensing fibers under fluid pressure.
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OCIS Codes
(060.2320) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators
(060.2370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics sensors
Citation
Klaus Bohnert, Andreas Frank, Etienne Rochat, Karim Haroud, and Hubert Brändle, "Polarimetric Fiber Laser Sensor for Hydrostatic Pressure," Appl. Opt. 43, 41-48 (2004)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-43-1-41
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