Bend sensors based on periodically tapered soft glass fibers

  • Yiping Wang*
  • , David Richardson
  • , Gilberto Brambilla
  • , Xian Feng
  • , Marco Petrovich
  • , Ming Ding
  • , Zhangqi Song
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrate a technique for tapering periodically an all-solid soft glass fiber consisting of two types of lead silicate glasses by the use of a CO2 laser and investigate the bend sensing applications of the periodically-tapered soft glass fiber. Such a soft glass fiber with periodic microtapers could be used to develop a promising bend sensor with a sensitivity of -27.75 μW/m-1 by means of measuring the bend-induced change of light intensity. The proposed bend sensor exhibits a very low measurement error of down to ± 1%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors - Ottawa, ON, Canada
Duration: 15 May 201119 May 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7753
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa, ON
Period15/05/1119/05/11

Keywords

  • CO laser
  • bend sensors
  • intensity measurement
  • microtapers
  • sensing applications
  • soft glass fibers

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