• Photonic Sensors
  • Vol. 14, Issue 1, 240126 (2024)
Yuan ZHUANG1, Jun ZOU2, Jiqiang ZHANG1, Lu ZHANG1, Jiahe ZHANG1, Leixin MENG1, and and Qing YANG1、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Research Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311121, China
  • 2ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Hangzhou 310014, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s13320-023-0694-9 Cite this Article
    Yuan ZHUANG, Jun ZOU, Jiqiang ZHANG, Lu ZHANG, Jiahe ZHANG, Leixin MENG, and Qing YANG. On-Chip Sub-Picometer Continuous Wavelength Fiber-Bragg-Grating Interrogator[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2024, 14(1): 240126 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Miniaturized fiber-Bragg-grating (FBG) interrogators are of interest for applications in the areas where weight and size controlling is important, e.g., airplanes and aerospace or in-situ monitoring. An ultra-compact high-precision on-chip interrogator is proposed based on a tailored arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. The on-chip interrogator enables continuous wavelength interrogation from 1 544 nm to 1 568 nm with the wavelength accuracy of less than 1 pm [the root-mean-square error (RMSE) is 0.73 pm] over the whole wavelength range. The chip loss is less than 5 dB. The 1 × 16 AWG is optimized to achieve a large bandwidth and a low noise level at each channel, and the FBG reflection peaks can be detected by multiple output channels of the AWG. The fabricated AWG is utilized to interrogate FBG sensors through the center of gravity (CoG) algorithm. The validation of an on-chip FBG interrogator that works with sub-picometer wavelength accuracy in a broad wavelength range shows large potential for applications in miniaturized fiber optic sensing systems.
    Yuan ZHUANG, Jun ZOU, Jiqiang ZHANG, Lu ZHANG, Jiahe ZHANG, Leixin MENG, and Qing YANG. On-Chip Sub-Picometer Continuous Wavelength Fiber-Bragg-Grating Interrogator[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2024, 14(1): 240126
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