Fiber refractometer based on a fiber Bragg grating and single-mode-multimode-single-mode fiber structure

Qiang Wu; Yuliya Semenova; Binbin Yan; Youqiao Ma; Pengfei Wang; Chongxiu Yu; Gerald Farrell

doi:10.1364/OL.36.002197

Fiber refractometer based on a fiber Bragg grating and single-mode-multimode-single-mode fiber structure

Opt Lett. 2011 Jun 15;36(12):2197-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.36.002197.

Authors

Qiang Wu¹, Yuliya Semenova, Binbin Yan, Youqiao Ma, Pengfei Wang, Chongxiu Yu, Gerald Farrell

Affiliation

¹ Photonics Research Center, School of Electronic and Communications Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. qiang.wu@dit.ie

PMID: 21685965
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.002197

Abstract

A refractive index (RI) sensor based on a novel fiber structure that consists of a single-mode-multimode-single-mode (SMS) fiber structure followed by a fiber Bragg grating was demonstrated. The multimode fiber in the SMS structure excites cladding modes within output single-mode fiber (SMF) and recouple the reflected cladding Bragg wavelength to the input SMF core. By measuring the relative Bragg wavelength shift between core and cladding Bragg wavelengths, the RI can be determined. Experimentally we have achieved a maximum sensitivity of 7.33 nm/RIU (RI unit) at RI range from 1.324 to 1.439.