• DocumentCode
    2951400
  • Title

    A fiber volume strain sensor based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer

  • Author

    Zhilin Xu ; Qizhen Sun ; Jianghai Wo ; Ruibing Liang ; Deming Liu

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Eng. Lab. for Next Generation Internet Access Syst., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    28-31 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    A fiber volume strain sensor based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in this paper. The sensor is fabricated by wrapping a section of fiber in the sensing arm of the MZI on a polyethylene hollow column and interrogated through measuring the FSR-1 of the MZI simply. A resolution of 3.29×10 ε is achieved when the 40mm diameter of sensing hollow column is 40mm.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; fibre optic sensors; strain measurement; strain sensors; volume measurement; MZI; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; fiber volume strain sensor; fiber wrapping section; polyethylene hollow column; size 40 mm; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fiber theory; Sensitivity; Strain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Sensors, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • ISSN
    1930-0395
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1766-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1930-0395
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSENS.2012.6411459
  • Filename
    6411459