High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer
A new type of Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed to measure twist and temperature. The sensor contains a pretwisted taper and a ball. The pretwisted taper is made by pretwisted, and then, thermally tapering along a single-mode fiber, to induce permanent spiral distortion in the fiber. The...
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| author | Shujie Duan Weiliang Liu Cuiting Sun Hang Jiang Chong Yao Kai Zhang Xingyu Bai Wen Wang Cunlian Lu Tao Geng Feng Peng Libo Yuan |
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| description | A new type of Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed to measure twist and temperature. The sensor contains a pretwisted taper and a ball. The pretwisted taper is made by pretwisted, and then, thermally tapering along a single-mode fiber, to induce permanent spiral distortion in the fiber. The experimental results indicate that the sensor has higher twist sensitivity. Twisting the sensor for counterclockwise and clockwise direction, the twist sensitivities of Dip 1584 nm are -0.378 and 0.083 nm/(rad/m), respectively, and the twist sensitivities of Dip 1685 nm are -0.117 and 0.089 nm/(rad/m), respectively. Meanwhile, the twist direction can be determined by the value of the twist sensitivities. The temperature sensitivities of Dip 1584 and Dip 1685 nm are 63 pm/°C and 74 pm/°C, respectively. The feasibility of measuring the torsion and temperature characteristics has been experimentally confirmed. Thus, the proposed MZI sensor can be used to measure twist and temperature and discriminate twist direction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c0abef0d1414f3c893f5697794a13e12022-12-21T22:11:40ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552018-01-011061710.1109/JPHOT.2018.28804508528325High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder InterferometerShujie Duan0Weiliang Liu1Cuiting Sun2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0773-298XHang Jiang3Chong Yao4Kai Zhang5Xingyu Bai6Wen Wang7Cunlian Lu8Tao Geng9https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0791-6615Feng Peng10https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2715-5948Libo Yuan11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2425-4553Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaKey Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaSchool of Physics and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan, ChinaPhotonics Research Center, Guilin University of Electronics Technology, Guilin, ChinaA new type of Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed to measure twist and temperature. The sensor contains a pretwisted taper and a ball. The pretwisted taper is made by pretwisted, and then, thermally tapering along a single-mode fiber, to induce permanent spiral distortion in the fiber. The experimental results indicate that the sensor has higher twist sensitivity. Twisting the sensor for counterclockwise and clockwise direction, the twist sensitivities of Dip 1584 nm are -0.378 and 0.083 nm/(rad/m), respectively, and the twist sensitivities of Dip 1685 nm are -0.117 and 0.089 nm/(rad/m), respectively. Meanwhile, the twist direction can be determined by the value of the twist sensitivities. The temperature sensitivities of Dip 1584 and Dip 1685 nm are 63 pm/°C and 74 pm/°C, respectively. The feasibility of measuring the torsion and temperature characteristics has been experimentally confirmed. Thus, the proposed MZI sensor can be used to measure twist and temperature and discriminate twist direction.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8528325/Mach–Zehnder interferometertemperaturetwistpre-twisted taper. |
| spellingShingle | Shujie Duan Weiliang Liu Cuiting Sun Hang Jiang Chong Yao Kai Zhang Xingyu Bai Wen Wang Cunlian Lu Tao Geng Feng Peng Libo Yuan High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer IEEE Photonics Journal Mach–Zehnder interferometer temperature twist pre-twisted taper. |
| title | High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer |
| title_full | High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer |
| title_fullStr | High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer |
| title_full_unstemmed | High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer |
| title_short | High Sensitive Directional Twist Sensor Based on a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer |
| title_sort | high sensitive directional twist sensor based on a mach x2013 zehnder interferometer |
| topic | Mach–Zehnder interferometer temperature twist pre-twisted taper. |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8528325/ |
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