SMS fiber optic microbend sensor structures: effect of the modal interference

被引:29
作者
Kumar, A
Varshney, RK [1 ]
Kumar, R
机构
[1] Indian Inst Technol, Dept Phys, New Delhi 110016, India
[2] CHTM, Albuquerque, NM 87106 USA
关键词
fiber optic sensors; microbend sensors; SMS structures; modal interference;
D O I
10.1016/j.optcom.2003.12.077
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We examine the effect of modal interference on the performance of a single mode-multimode-single mode (SMS) fiber optic microbend sensor structure. The study shows that if the coupling from higher order modes of the sensing multimode fiber to the lead-out single mode (SM) fiber is not zero, the output power and hence the microbend sensitivity of the structure depends strongly on the position of the microbends in the fiber. A simple experiment is carried out to study the above effect whose results agree very well with the theoretical predictions. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:6
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