Performance analysis of polymer optical fibre based Fabry-Perot sensor formed by two uniform Bragg gratings

A. Pospori; D. J. Webb

doi:10.1117/12.2227481

27 April 2016 Performance analysis of polymer optical fibre based Fabry-Perot sensor formed by two uniform Bragg gratings

A. Pospori, D. J. Webb

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Proceedings Volume 9886, Micro-Structured and Specialty Optical Fibres IV; 98861F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227481
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

The stress sensitivity of polymer optical fibre (POF) based Fabry-Perot sensors formed by two uniform Bragg gratings with finite dimensions is investigated. POF has received high interest in recent years due to its different material properties compared to its silica counterpart. Biocompatibility, a higher failure strain and the highly elastic nature of POF are some of the main advantages. The much lower Young’s modulus of polymer materials compared to silica offers enhanced stress sensitivity to POF based sensors which renders them great candidates for acoustic wave receivers and any kind of force detection. The main drawback in POF technology is perhaps the high fibre loss. In a lossless fibre the sensitivity of an interferometer is proportional to its cavity length. However, the presence of the attenuation along the optical path can significantly reduce the finesse of the Fabry-Perot interferometer and it can negatively affect its sensitivity at some point. The reflectivity of the two gratings used to form the interferometer can be also reduced as the fibre loss increases. In this work, a numerical model is developed to study the performance of POF based Fabry-Perot sensors formed by two uniform Bragg gratings with finite dimensions. Various optical and physical properties are considered such as grating physical length, grating effective length which indicates the point where the light is effectively reflected, refractive index modulation of the grating, cavity length of the interferometer, attenuation and operating wavelength. Using this model, we are able to identify the regimes in which the PMMA based sensor offer enhanced stress sensitivity compared to silica based one.

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A. Pospori and D. J. Webb "Performance analysis of polymer optical fibre based Fabry-Perot sensor formed by two uniform Bragg gratings", Proc. SPIE 9886, Micro-Structured and Specialty Optical Fibres IV, 98861F (27 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227481

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