Open AccessFiber ring laser based on MMF-PMFBG-MMF filter for three parameters sensing
Author(s) -
Bin Yin,
Muguang Wang,
Songhua Wu,
Yu Tao,
Feng Shen,
Yue Wu,
Hongwei Zhang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.25.030946
Subject(s) - materials science , fiber bragg grating , optics , polarization maintaining optical fiber , fiber laser , multi mode optical fiber , dispersion shifted fiber , fiber optic sensor , laser , graded index fiber , optical fiber , lasing threshold , wavelength , optoelectronics , physics
A dual-wavelength fiber ring laser based on multimode fiber-polarization maintaining fiber Bragg grating-multimode fiber (MMF-PMFBG-MMF) filter for simultaneously axial strain, temperature and refractive index (RI) sensing is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the ring laser, stable dual-wavelength lasing is determined by the MMF-PMFBG-MMF filter with two polarization states. The fiber birefringence affected by axial strain is far less than the effect of the temperature. Through monitoring the variations of each wavelength shift and output power, the simultaneous measurement for the axial strain, temperature and RI is realized. In our experiment, the proposed fiber laser sensor exhibits an axial strain sensitivity of 1.16 × 10 -3 nm/με and an RI sensitivity of 81.2dB/RIU. Meanwhile, the temperature sensitivities of two wavelengths are experimentally measured to be 9.74 × 10 -3 nm/°C and 9.2 × 10 -3 nm /°C, respectively.