Ultra-Sensitive Strain and Temperature Sensing Based on Modal Interference in Perfluorinated Polymer Optical Fibers

We implement the strain and temperature sensors based on multimode interference in perfluorinated (PF) graded-index (GI) plastic optical fibers, and investigate their sensing performance at 1300 nm. We obtain strain and temperature sensitivities of -112 pm/με/m and +49.8 nm/&am...

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Main Authors: Goki Numata, Neisei Hayashi, Marie Tabaru, Yosuke Mizuno, Kentaro Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2014-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6887320/