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Abstract A liquid refractive index (RI) sensor based on in-fiber Michelson interferometer (MI) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated, which consists of a segment of 3-core fiber (3CF) fusion spliced with… Click to show full abstract
Abstract A liquid refractive index (RI) sensor based on in-fiber Michelson interferometer (MI) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated, which consists of a segment of 3-core fiber (3CF) fusion spliced with a short piece of multimode fiber (MMF). The operation principle of the MI lies in the intermodal interference of the 3CF via employing MMF to excite high-order modes, and the 3CF end face reflects the interference spectrum which loaded the surrounding RI information. By measuring the reflection spectrum variation, the RI can be determined. Experimentally, a linearly RI sensitivity of -151.56 dB/RIU is achieved in the sensing range of 1.3335-1.3720 RIU, and the temperature sensitivity in water is 0.048 nm/°C.
Journal Title: Optics Communications
Year Published: 2019
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