Novel design of dual-core microstructured fiber with enhanced longitudinal strain sensitivity

Lukasz Szostkiewicz; T. Tenderenda; M. Napierala; M. Szymański; M. Murawski; P. Mergo; P. Lesiak; P. Marc; L. R. Jaroszewicz; T. Nasilowski

doi:10.1117/12.2051120

15 May 2014 Novel design of dual-core microstructured fiber with enhanced longitudinal strain sensitivity

Lukasz Szostkiewicz, T. Tenderenda, M. Napierala, M. Szymański, M. Murawski, P. Mergo, P. Lesiak, P. Marc, L. R. Jaroszewicz, T. Nasilowski

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Proceedings Volume 9141, Optical Sensing and Detection III; 91410S (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051120
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Constantly refined technology of manufacturing increasingly complex photonic crystal fibers (PCF) leads to new optical fiber sensor concepts. The ways of enhancing the influence of external factors (such as hydrostatic pressure, temperature, acceleration) on the fiber propagating conditions are commonly investigated in literature. On the other hand longitudinal strain analysis, due to the calculation difficulties caused by the three dimensional computation, are somehow neglected. In this paper we show results of such a 3D numerical simulation and report methods of tuning the fiber strain sensitivity by changing the fiber microstructure and core doping level. Furthermore our approach allows to control whether the modes’ effective refractive index is increasing or decreasing with strain, with the possibility of achieving zero strain sensitivity with specific fiber geometries. The presented numerical analysis is compared with experimental results of the fabricated fibers characterization. Basing on the aforementioned methodology we propose a novel dual-core fiber design with significantly increased sensitivity to longitudinal strain for optical fiber sensor applications. Furthermore the reported fiber satisfies all conditions necessary for commercial applications like good mode matching with standard single-mode fiber, low confinement loss and ease of manufacturing with the stack-and-draw technique. Such fiber may serve as an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer when highly coherent source is used. With the optimization of single mode transmission to 850 nm, we propose a VCSEL source to be used in order to achieve a low-cost, reliable and compact strain sensing transducer.

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Lukasz Szostkiewicz, T. Tenderenda, M. Napierala, M. Szymański, M. Murawski, P. Mergo, P. Lesiak, P. Marc, L. R. Jaroszewicz, and T. Nasilowski "Novel design of dual-core microstructured fiber with enhanced longitudinal strain sensitivity", Proc. SPIE 9141, Optical Sensing and Detection III, 91410S (15 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051120

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Fiber optics sensors

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Single mode fibers

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