Advanced Photonic Technology Lab, College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Meifang HE, Beibei ZHU, Zuxing ZHANG. High Sensitivity Temperature Sensor Based on Harmonic Vernier Effect[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2023, 13(2): 230204
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A high-sensitivity temperature sensor based on the harmonic Vernier effect is proposed and verified by experiments. The main component of the sensor is a Sagnac interferometer consisting of two sections of polarization maintaining fibers (PMFs) spliced with an intersection angle of 45° between their fast axes. The harmonic Vernier effect is achieved by setting the length of one of the PMFs an integral multiple (i-times) of the length of the other plus a detuning factor. Compared with the Sagnac interferometer based on the fundamental Vernier effect, the temperature sensitivity of the harmonic Vernier effect is higher, reaching i+1 times of that of the fundamental Vernier effect (i is the order of the harmonic).