Sensing characteristics of birefringent microstructured polymer optical fiber

Marcin K. Szczurowski; Orlando Frazao; J. M. Baptista; Kristian Nielsen; Ole Bang; Waclaw Urbanczyk

doi:10.1117/12.885833

Sensing characteristics of birefringent microstructured polymer optical fiber

Marcin K. Szczurowski, Orlando Frazao, J. M. Baptista, Kristian Nielsen, Ole Bang, Waclaw Urbanczyk

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We experimentally studied several sensing characteristics of a birefringent microstructured polymer optical fiber. The fiber exhibits a birefringence of the order 2×10-5 at 1.3 μm because of two small holes adjacent to the core. In this fiber, we measured spectral dependence of phase and group modal birefringence, bending losses, polarimetric sensitivity to strain and temperature. The sensitivity to strain was also examined for intermodal interference observed in the spectral range below 0.8 μm. Finally, we showed that the material transmission windows shift as function of the applied strain. This shift has an exponential character and saturates for greater strain.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7753
Pages (from-to)	77533Z
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885833
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors - Ottawa, Canada Duration: 15 May 2011 → … Conference number: 21

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Conference	21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
Number	21
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Ottawa
Period	15/05/2011 → …

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Microstructured fibers
Optical fiber sensors
Birefringence
Polymer fibers

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