Title :
Stress and hydraulic pressure sensor based on a dual-core photonic crystal fiber
Author :
Fei Xu ; Gufeng Hu ; Daru Chen ; Baojin Peng ; Zhenyong Liu ; Tam, Hwa Yaw
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Opt., Zhejiang Normal Univ., Jinhua, China
Abstract :
A dual-core photonic crystal fiber (DC-PCF) sensor based on fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer is proposed and demonstrated for stress sensing with a sensitivity of 1.4 pm/μe and hydraulic pressure sensing with a sensitivity of -41 pm/MPa.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; fibre optic sensors; holey fibres; photonic crystals; pressure sensors; dual-core photonic crystal fiber; fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer; hydraulic pressure sensor; stress sensing; stress sensor;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6274-0
