Trench-embedding fiber taper sensor fabricated by a femtosecond laser for gas refractive index sensing

被引:12
作者
Cao, Zhitao [1 ]
Jiang, Lan [1 ]
Wang, Sumei [1 ]
Wang, Peng [1 ]
Zhang, Fei [1 ]
Lu, Yongfeng [2 ]
机构
[1] Beijing Inst Technol, Sch Mech Engn, Natl Sci Fdn China, NanoManufacturing Fundamental Res Joint Lab, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Nebraska, Dept Elect Engn, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
OPTICAL-FIBER; TEMPERATURE; INTERFEROMETER;
D O I
10.1364/AO.53.001028
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A fiber in-line, multimode coupling interferometer with a trench-embedding, fiber taper probe is proposed and fabricated by femtosecond-laser-induced water breakdown. The reflection-type taper probe is used for gas refractive index (RI) detection from 1.0001143 to 1.0002187 and temperature sensing from 50 degrees C to 500 degrees C. The largest RI sensitivity of the taper probe embedded with a trench at a width of 18.4 mu m is 669.502 nm/RIU for hybrid nitrogen and helium. Temperature sensitivity is 9.97 pm/degrees C and it shows good linearity through the whole testing range. The new-type multimode interferometer is appropriate for high-accuracy gas RI detection of micrometer-scale spaces and wide-range temperature compensation can be realized. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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页码:1028 / 1032
页数:5
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