Effect of fluorine (F) doping in the core of a birefringent photonic crystal fiber (PCF) on sensing capability of temperature and strain was investigated by using Sagnac loop interferometry. The birefringence of the F-doped PCF was measured to be 1.5610-4 at 1550 nm and the temperature and the strain sensitivities of the F-doped PCF were found to increase from -9.6 pm/°C/m to -3×4 pm/°C/m and from 3.5 pm/με to 6.3 pm/με, respectively.
A novel photonic crystal fiber with a Ge nanoparticles-doped germano-silicate core was fabricated by using the MCVD and stack-and-draw processes. Effect of Ge nanoparticles and the air-holes structure on non-resonant optical nonlinearity and supercontinuum generation was investigated.
Measurement range enhancement technique is proposed for distributed sensing of optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) system. By using quadrature detection method in detection part, measurement range can be two times extended compared to conventional OFDR. Distributed strain sensing capability is experimentally reported with extended range up to full coherence length of tunable laser source by analyzing Rayleigh back-scattering signal obtained from the proposed quadrature detection of OFDR system.
A novel scheme of plastic optical fiber (POF) based arc flash sensor capable of tracing arc event locations is presented. Incident position of flash light can simply be known by measuring the ratio of intensities at both fiber-ends, since the intensity of the flash light assisted by side-coupling of the fiber is generally attenuated a the fiber length. The arc flash sensor which can cover a wide range up to 10 m with a high spatial resolution of ±10 cm is experimentally demonstrated using the POF. Arc flash intensity can also be known by analyzing the coupled light intensity level at both fiber ends.
We present an arc flash sensor that can trace the arc event position as well as intensity by utilizing conventional plastic optical fibers (POFs). In order to check the possibility as a light-receiving sensor, we experimentally confirm that the externally irradiated flash light can be coupled into the fiber core through the surface of POF without any additional treatment. After the incident light is divided in two optical paths toward opposite directions, they have the different attenuation values determined by the propagation distance. Since the optical transmission loss of a POF is constant regardless of the irradiated energy, the intensity ratio for two signals measured at both fiber ends is given as a function of position. The experimental results show that we can successfully trace the event position from this intensity ratio. In addition, it is possible to define the illuminated energy by comparing the absolute value of the intensity measured from one side. According to the experimental results, the proposed sensor has a relatively fine spatial resolution, ±10 cm, despite having a simple structure.
Possibility of a Co/Fe co-doped alumino-silicate optical fiber as a radiation dosimeter application was investigated from the measurement of radiation-induced optical attenuation (RIA). The RIA at 1310 nm of the optical fiber upon gammaray irradiation was found to increase linearly with the radiation dose. The extent of the RIA increase to 11,900 dB/km at radiation dose rate of 20 Gy/min for 1 hour was 70 times larger than that of the reference single mode fiber and the RIA remained almost constant after 5 minutes of the irradiation termination.
An optical fiber bend sensor based on a fiber Bragg grating by using a germano-silicate glass optical fiber with depressed-index structure has been developed and its novel bend sensing characteristics was demonstrated. With the increase of bending, the transmission spectrum was linearly blue-shifted without change of optical transmission loss. Total blue-shift of the Bragg reflection wavelength upon bending in the radius of curvature from 20 m-1 to 133 m-1 was − 0.13 nm.
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