• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 7, 070601 (2017)
Xiaobei Zhang*, Haiyang Shao, Haiyang Pan, Yong Yang, Huawen Bai, Fufei Pang, and Tingyun Wang
Author Affiliations
  • Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201715.070601 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiaobei Zhang, Haiyang Shao, Haiyang Pan, Yong Yang, Huawen Bai, Fufei Pang, Tingyun Wang. Simple capillary-based extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometer for strain sensing[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(7): 070601 Copy Citation Text show less
    (a) Illustration for fabricating the device, and (b) the reflection spectrum of the capillary-based FPI. Inset shows the propagation paths of the input and output light in the sensor device.
    Fig. 1. (a) Illustration for fabricating the device, and (b) the reflection spectrum of the capillary-based FPI. Inset shows the propagation paths of the input and output light in the sensor device.
    (a) Reflection spectra of the fabricated FPI devices with different interferometer lengths and the capillary ID of 50 μm. (b)-(d) Microscopic images of fabricated FPI devices.
    Fig. 2. (a) Reflection spectra of the fabricated FPI devices with different interferometer lengths and the capillary ID of 50 μm. (b)-(d) Microscopic images of fabricated FPI devices.
    Measured insertion loss for the devices with an inner capillary diameter of 50 μm.
    Fig. 3. Measured insertion loss for the devices with an inner capillary diameter of 50 μm.
    Illustration of the strain sensing experimental setup. EFPI, extrinsic FPI.
    Fig. 4. Illustration of the strain sensing experimental setup. EFPI, extrinsic FPI.
    (a) Spectral shift as the strain increases from 0 to 1000 με for the device with ID=50 μm and L=55 μm, and (b) the response of the strain with different FP cavity lengths.
    Fig. 5. (a) Spectral shift as the strain increases from 0 to 1000με for the device with ID=50μm and L=55μm, and (b) the response of the strain with different FP cavity lengths.
    Strain sensitivity of the sensor devices with different IDs and interferometer lengths.
    Fig. 6. Strain sensitivity of the sensor devices with different IDs and interferometer lengths.
    Splicer ParametersCleaning Arc TimeGapPromoting DistanceArc PowerPre-fuse TimeFuse Time
    Data20 ms15 μm20 μm10 bits100 ms500 ms
    Table 1. Main Fusion Splicing Parameters in the Experiments
    Xiaobei Zhang, Haiyang Shao, Haiyang Pan, Yong Yang, Huawen Bai, Fufei Pang, Tingyun Wang. Simple capillary-based extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometer for strain sensing[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(7): 070601
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