2.4 ng/âHz low-noise fiber-optic MEMS seismic accelerometer.
Opt Lett
; 47(3): 718-721, 2022 Feb 01.
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ABSTRACT
This paper introduces a fiber-optic microelectromechanical system (MEMS) seismic-grade accelerometer that is fabricated by bulk silicon processing using photoresist/silicon dioxide composite masking technology. The proposed sensor is a silicon flexure accelerometer whose displacement transduction system employs a light intensity detection method based on Fabry-Perot interference (FPI). The FPI cavity is formed between the end surface of the cleaved optical fiber and the gold-surfaced sidewall of the proof mass. The proposed MEMS accelerometer is fabricated by one-step silicon deep reactive ion etching with different depths using the composite mask, among which photoresist is used as the etching-defining mask for patterning the etching area while silicon dioxide is used as the depth-defining mask. Noise evaluation experiment results reveal that the overall noise floor of the fiber-optic MEMS accelerometer is 2.4 ng/H z at 10 Hz with a sensitivity of 3165 V/g, which is lower than that of most reported micromachined optical accelerometers, and the displacement noise floor of the optical displacement transduction system is 208 fm/H z at 10 Hz. Therefore, the proposed MEMS accelerometer is promising for use in high-performance seismic exploration applications.
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