Temperature-Insensitive Microdisplacement Sensor Based on Locally Bent Microfiber Taper Modal Interferometer

We report a temperature-insensitive microdisplacement sensor with a locally bent microfiber taper interferometer. The microfiber taper waist diameter can be optimized to minimize the spectral shift of the sensor owing to the environmental temperature change. With a similar to 1.92 - mu m-diameter microfiber taper, a bimodal fiber interferometer is proposed and experimentally fabricated. The transmission spectrum shows substantially small temperature dependence matching well with the theoretical estimation. The transmission spectrum is red-shifted in response to microdisplacement with a high sensitivity of 102 pm/mu m but without requirement for temperature compensation.