Polarimetric heterodyning fiber grating laser sensors

Bai-Ou Guan; Yang Zhang; Yan-Nan Tan; Tuan Guo; Hwa-Yaw Tam

doi:10.1117/12.883785

16 May 2011 Polarimetric heterodyning fiber grating laser sensors

Bai-Ou Guan, Yang Zhang, Yan-Nan Tan, Tuan Guo, Hwa-Yaw Tam

Proceedings Volume 8034, Photonic Microdevices/Microstructures for Sensing III; 80340G (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883785
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Fiber grating laser sensors have been attracting interest because of their high signal-to-noise ratio and narrow linewidth that permit high resolution sensing. According to the working principle, fiber grating laser sensors can be classified into two types: wavelength encoding sensor and polarimetric heterodyning sensor. The former converts measurrand into shift in the operation wavelength of the fiber laser, which is similar to that of fiber grating sensor. The latter converts measurrant into change in beat frequency between the two orthogonal polarization modes from the laser. Because the beat frequency is in radio frequency (RF) range, the polarimetric heterodyning sensor has distinctive advantages of ease of interrogation and avoidance of expensive wavelength measurement that is required for wavelength encoding sensors. In this paper, we report some of our recent works in fabrication of dual-polarization fiber grating lasers, development of polarimetric heterodyning fiber grating laser sensors for measurement of acoustic wave, acceleration, lateral force, displacement, electric current and hydrostatic pressure, and sensor multiplexing in RF domain.

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Bai-Ou Guan, Yang Zhang, Yan-Nan Tan, Tuan Guo, and Hwa-Yaw Tam "Polarimetric heterodyning fiber grating laser sensors", Proc. SPIE 8034, Photonic Microdevices/Microstructures for Sensing III, 80340G (16 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883785

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