Photonic Sensors, 2016, 6 (3): 193, Published Online: Oct. 20, 2016
Characterization of Miniature Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensors Based on Hollow Silica Tube
Abstract
A miniature fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (MOFPI) fabricated by splicing a hollow silica tube (HST) with inner diameter of 4 μm to the end of a single-mode fiber is investigated and experimentally demonstrated. The theoretical relationship between the free spectrum range and the length of HST is verified by fabricating several MOFPIs with different lengths. We characterize the MOFPIs for temperature, liquid refractive index, and strain. Experimental results show that the sensitivities of the temperature, liquid refractive index, and strain are 16.42 pm/℃, -118.56 dB/RIU, and 1.21 pm/με, respectively.
Pinggang JIA, Guocheng FANG, Daihua WANG. Characterization of Miniature Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensors Based on Hollow Silica Tube[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2016, 6(3): 193.