Locally pressed plastic optical fibers for refractive index sensing

Shumpei Shimada; Heeyoung Lee; Makoto Shizuka; Hiroki Tanaka; Neisei Hayashi; Yosuke Mizuno; Kentaro Nakamura

doi:10.1117/12.2267461

23 April 2017 Locally pressed plastic optical fibers for refractive index sensing

Shumpei Shimada, Heeyoung Lee, Makoto Shizuka, Hiroki Tanaka, Neisei Hayashi, Yosuke Mizuno, Kentaro Nakamura

Proceedings Volume 10323, 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 1032358 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2267461
Event: 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 2017, Jeju, Korea, Republic of

Abstract

Power-based refractive index (RI) sensing is demonstrated by exploiting an ultrasonically pressed plastic optical fiber (POF). We can be easily and cost-efficiently fabricate this structure, within a short while ( ~1 s), without using external heat sources or chemical materials. We have only to simply press the horn connected to an ultrasonic transducer against part of the POF. The RI dependence of the transmitted power exhibits linear trends in the RI ranges from ~1.32 to ~1.36 (coefficient: −62 dB/RIU (RI unit)) and ~1.40 to ~1.44 (coefficient: −257 dB/RIU)). We also study the temperature dependence of the transmitted power.

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Shumpei Shimada, Heeyoung Lee, Makoto Shizuka, Hiroki Tanaka, Neisei Hayashi, Yosuke Mizuno, and Kentaro Nakamura "Locally pressed plastic optical fibers for refractive index sensing", Proc. SPIE 10323, 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 1032358 (23 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2267461

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