Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 National Engineering Laboratory for Fiber Optic Sensing Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
2 Key Laboratory of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S-3G4, Canada
We propose a cavity length demodulation method that combines virtual reference interferometry (VRI) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) algorithm for fiber-optic Fabry–Perot (F-P) sensors. In contrast to the conventional demodulating method that uses fast Fourier transform (FFT) for cavity length estimation, our method employs the VRI technique to obtain a raw cavity length, which is further refined by the MMSE algorithm. As an experimental demonstration, a fiber-optic F-P sensor based on a sapphire wafer is fabricated for temperature sensing. The VRI-MMSE method is employed to interrogate cavity lengths of the sensor under different temperatures ranging from 28°C to 1000°C. It eliminates the “mode jumping” problem in the FFT-MMSE method and obtains a precision of 4.8 nm, corresponding to a temperature resolution of 2.0°C over a range of 1000°C. The experimental results reveal that the proposed method provides a promising, high precision alternative for demodulating fiber-optic F-P sensors.
060.2370 Fiber optics sensors 060.2300 Fiber measurements Chinese Optics Letters
2018, 16(1): 010606
1 武汉理工大学 光纤传感技术国家工程实验室, 武汉 430070
2 武汉理工大学 光纤传感技术与信息处理教育部重点实验室, 武汉 430070
提出并研制了一种基于蓝宝石晶片的光纤法布里-珀罗(法珀)高温传感器.该传感器采用斜端面蓝宝石光纤作传输波导, 蓝宝石晶片作法珀干涉仪, “陶瓷插芯-陶瓷套管”结构做为传感器的固定结构.通过傅里叶变换-最小均方差联合算法解调传感器的反射光谱, 实现了20℃～1 000℃范围内的温度测量, 测试准确度为±2.5℃.该传感器具有体积小、成本低、制作简单以及重复性高的优点, 可用于高温环境下稳定、精确的温度测量.
光纤法珀传感器 蓝宝石晶片 高温测量 蓝宝石光纤 算法 Fiber-optic Fabry-Perot sensor Sapphire wafer High temperature measurement Sapphire fiber Algorithm 光子学报
2016, 45(12): 1228003
