Photonic Sensors, 2015, 5 (3): 224, Published Online: Oct. 22, 2015
Dispersion Effects of High-Order-Mode Fiber on Temperature and Axial Strain Discrimination
Abstract
A new approach utilizing effects of dispersion in the high-order-mode fibers (HOMFs) to effectively discriminate changes in environmental temperature and axial strain is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Experimental characterization of a HOMF-based fiber modal interferometer with a sandwich fiber structure exhibits excellent agreements with numerical simulation results. A Fourier transform method of interferometry in the spatial frequency domain is adopted to distinguish mode coupling between different core-guided modes. Distinct phase sensitivities of multiple dispersion peaks are extracted by employing a novel phase demodulation scheme to realize dual-parameter sensing.
Yanping XU, Ping LU, Jia SONG, Ping LU, Liang CHEN, Xiaoyi BAO, Xiaopeng DONG. Dispersion Effects of High-Order-Mode Fiber on Temperature and Axial Strain Discrimination[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2015, 5(3): 224.