Open AccessMicrowave photonics interrogation for multiplexing fiber Fabry-Perot sensors
Author(s) -
Nengyou Wu,
Min Xia,
Ying Wu,
Shiyu Li,
Ruiling Qi,
Yuhao Huang,
Li Xia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.424059
Subject(s) - multiplexing , optics , demodulation , fabry–pérot interferometer , sensitivity (control systems) , optical carrier transmission rates , materials science , passband , interrogation , optical fiber , wavelength division multiplexing , optoelectronics , physics , electronic engineering , radio over fiber , telecommunications , band pass filter , wavelength , computer science , engineering , channel (broadcasting) , archaeology , history
A microwave photonics interrogation system for multiplexing fiber Fabry-Perot (FP) sensors is demonstrated in this paper. Different from previous FP demodulation schemes, this system aims at quasi-distributed sensing networks composed of FP sensors with a short effective cavity length less than 1 mm. With the help of a dispersion element, the superimposed reflected spectrum from FP sensors based on a hollow core fiber (HCF) can be converted into separate response passbands in the frequency domain simultaneously, whose center frequency will shift linearly with the variations of environment. The experimental results exhibit high linearity and interrogation ability for both the all-FP multiplexing system and hybrid multiplexing system. A strain interrogation sensitivity of 0.938 kHz/µɛ and temperature sensitivity of -0.699 MHz/°C have been realized, corresponding to a FP cavity length demodulation sensitivity of 1.563 MHz/µm. Furthermore, numerical studies about the impacts of the HCF-FP spectrum envelope on the RF response passband, as well as the theoretical minimum detectable cavity length and multiplexing capacity of the system, are also carried out.