Intensity measurement bend sensors based on periodically tapered soft glass fibers

Yiping Wang; David Richardson; Gilberto Brambilla; Xian Feng; Marco Petrovich; Ming Ding; Zhangqi Song

doi:10.1364/OL.36.000558

Intensity measurement 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

University of Southampton
Harbin Engineering University

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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 focused CO₂ laser beam 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 promising bend sensors 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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	558-560
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.000558
State	Published - 15 Feb 2011
Externally published	Yes

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