Sensitivity-Enhanced Extrinsic Fabry–Perot Interferometric Fiber-Optic Microcavity Strain Sensor

Autor: Zhibo Ma, Shaolei Cheng, Wanying Kou, Haibin Chen, Wei Wang, Xiongxing Zhang, Tongxin Guo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 19, Iss 19, p 4097 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s19194097
Popis: This study presents an extrinsic Fabry−Perot interferometric (EFPI) fiber-optic strain sensor with a very short cavity. The sensor consists of two vertically cut standard single-mode fibers (SMFs) and a glass capillary with a length of several centimeters. The two SMFs penetrate into the glass capillary and are fixed at its two ends with the use of ultraviolet (UV) curable adhesives. Based on the use of the lengthy glass capillary sensitive element, the strain sensitivity can be greatly enhanced. Experiments showed that the microcavity EPFI strain sensor with initial cavity lengths of 20 μm, 30 μm, and 40 μm, and a capillary length of 40 mm, can yield respective cavity length−strain sensitivities of 15.928 nm/με, 25.281 nm/με, and 40.178 nm/με, while its linearity was very close to unity for strain measurements spanning a range in excess of 3500 με. Furthermore, the strain−temperature cross-sensitivity was extremely low.
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