Multiplexed Weak Waist-Enlarged Fiber Taper Curvature Sensor and Its Rapid Inline Fabrication.
Sensors (Basel)
; 21(20)2021 Oct 13.
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ABSTRACT
This study proposes a multiplexed weak waist-enlarged fiber taper (WWFT) curvature sensor and its rapid fabrication method. Compared with other types of fiber taper, the proposed WWFT has no difference in appearance with the single mode fiber and has ultralow insertion loss. The fabrication of WWFT also does not need the repeated cleaving and splicing process, and thereby could be rapidly embedded into the inline sensing fiber without splicing point, which greatly enhances the sensor solidity. Owing to the ultralow insertion loss (as low as 0.15 dB), the WWFT-based interferometer is further used for multiplexed curvature sensing. The results show that the different curvatures can be individually detected by the multiplexed interferometers. Furthermore, it also shows that diverse responses for the curvature changes exist in two orthogonal directions, and the corresponding sensitivities are determined to be 79.1°/m-1 and -48.0°/m-1 respectively. This feature can be potentially applied for vector curvature sensing.
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Asunto principal:
Fibras Ópticas
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Tecnología de Fibra Óptica
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En
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Sensors (Basel)
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2021
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Article
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China