• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 23, Issue 5, 051201 (2025)
Ya Wen1, Xing Zhao1,2,3, Zhixiang Jiang1, and Da Li1,2,3,*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Eye Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 2Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 3Prosper-Vision (Tianjin) Optoelectronics Technology Co., Tianjin 300192, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202523.051201 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ya Wen, Xing Zhao, Zhixiang Jiang, Da Li, "High-performance multimode fiber specklegram sensing with a multi-layer convolutional neural network based on digital aperture filtering," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 051201 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Fiber specklegram sensors are widely studied for their high sensitivity and compact design. However, as the number of modes in the fiber increased, the speckle sensitivity heightened along with the correlation diminished, lowering the sensing performance. In this paper, an innovative method is introduced based on digital aperture filtering (DAF) that adopts physical principle analysis, which reduces the collection aperture by computationally screening out the energy of higher-order modes within the speckle, therefore enhancing the correlation among speckles. Subsequently, a multi-layer convolutional neural network is designed to accurately and efficiently identify the measurands represented from the filtered speckles. By comparing the experimental results of the speckle demodulation method on different multimode fibers in light field direction sensing, the DAF method has shown outstanding performance in sensing accuracy, sensing range, stability, resolution, and generalizability, fully demonstrating its tremendous potential in the advancement of fiber sensing technology.
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    Ya Wen, Xing Zhao, Zhixiang Jiang, Da Li, "High-performance multimode fiber specklegram sensing with a multi-layer convolutional neural network based on digital aperture filtering," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 051201 (2025)
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