An all-fiber sensor for heart rate monitoring is proposed and demonstrated based on the disturbance of the evanescent field in the no-core fiber (NCF). The sensing structure is realized through splicing a piece of single mode fiber (SMF) at the ends of the NCF, respectively. When a broad-band light is injected into the structure, the vibration of the pulse signal applied to the sensing structure will lead to the disturbance of the evanescent field in the NCF and modulate the intensity of the optical output power. Therefore, when the sensing structure is placed at the wrist of a human, it can be used to monitor the heart rate. It is demonstrated that a standard electrocardiogram (ECG) signal can be obtained when 30-mm long NCF is used in monitoring the heart rate. According to the measured ECG signals, the proposed sensor can have a response to the heart pulse at different rates ranging from 60 beats per minute (bpm) to 120 bpm.
An all-fiber optic high-sensitivity displacement sensor based on 45°-spliced PM Lyot filter is proposed and its sensing performance is investigated experimentally. According to the relationships between the dips and the displacements, the sensor has a good linearity in passive mode, whose R square is larger than 0.998, and the highest sensitivity of 132.55 pm/μm is obtained in the range of 200 μm displacement variation. Moreover, it can be compatible to an intracavity displacement sensing system, achieving narrow linewidth, high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and high resolution. It can be found that the sensitivity of the intracavity displacement sensor can be 60 pm/μm when the PMF fiber length is about 20 cm with a linewidth narrower than 0.05 nm and a SNR higher than 55 dB.
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