Optimization of fiber Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with different light sources for high sensitive sensor applications

Author

Thomas, Della ; Rajesh, R. ; Sreehari, C.V. ; Vivek, K. ; Kumar, Sham

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Gov. Model Eng. Coll., Kochi, India

fYear

2015

fDate

23-25 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An all fiber Mach-Zehnder Interferometer was developed for high sensitive sensor applications and its performance was optimized with different light sources: Distributed Feed-Back (DFB) fiber, Semiconductor diode lasers and Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) source. A suitable low noise, high bandwidth electronics detection system was also developed for this. The optical path difference of the interferometer and light source parameters were altered in this study for its optimum performance and the results are discussed.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; distributed feedback lasers; fibre optic sensors; light sources; optical fibre amplifiers; optimisation; semiconductor diodes; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ASE source; DFB fiber; amplified spontaneous emission source; distributed feedback fiber; fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer; high bandwidth electronics detection system; high sensitive sensor application; light source parameter; optical path difference; optimization; semiconductor diode laser; Gratings; Noise; Fiber Bragg Gratings; Fiber Lasers; Fiber optics Sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Underwater Technology (UT), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8299-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UT.2015.7108262

Filename

7108262