Design of the miniature optical fiber voltage sensor

Author

Liu, Jun ; Jiang, Guoqing ; Yan, Shubin ; Wang, Shaohui ; Yan, Yingzhan ; Jing, Yanfeng ; Xiong, Jijun ; Ye, Xiongying ; Zhou, Zhaoying ; Zhang, Wendong

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. For Electron. Meas. Technol., North Univ. of China, Taiyuan

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1008

Lastpage

1012

Abstract

Based on the typical microcavity quantum property and integration of the planar microtoroid with ultra-high Q value(about 10⁸), this paper theoretically proposes the design of the micro-optical voltage sensor. The voltage sensor belongs to the field of MOEMS, the entire device is composed of one microtoroid (diameter from 60 mum to 120 mum) with the ohmic contact in the middle and a fiber taper waveguide. Through contact dot the outside detected voltage is connected with the ohmic contact, as a result of the ohmic contact heat effect, the external voltage signal through the device transforms into a strong frequency shift which is coupled out through the fiber taper waveguide. After that it will be showed on the photoelectric detector and then the voltage value under test could be calculated.

Keywords

fibre optic sensors; ohmic contacts; optical waveguides; contact dot; micro-optical voltage sensor; ohmic contact; optical fiber voltage sensor; photoelectric detector; Frequency; Microcavities; Ohmic contacts; Optical design; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical waveguides; Quantum mechanics; Voltage; fiber taper waveguide; frequency shift; microtoroid; voltage sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, 2009. NEMS 2009. 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4629-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4630-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEMS.2009.5068744

Filename

5068744