1. High sensitive Mach–Zehnder interferometer for seawater refractive index measurement.
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Mu, Xiaoguang, Yang, Yuqiang, Wang, Ji, and Bi, Lei
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REFRACTIVE index ,CHEMICAL detectors ,SEAWATER ,SINGLE-mode optical fibers ,INTERFEROMETERS ,OPTICAL fiber detectors - Abstract
To improve the sensitivity of seawater refractive index (RI) measurement, fluorine-doped fiber (FDF)-sandwiched Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed, which is fabricated by splicing a short section of FDF between two sections of single-mode fibers (SMFs) with a large lateral offset. In FDF-sandwiched MZI, the two light paths are the FDF cladding and the measured seawater. The FDF cladding has lower RI than that of normal single-mode fiber (SMF), so the FDF-sandwiched MZI has higher sensitivity than that of SMF-sandwiched MZI. The results show that the RI sensitivity of the proposed sensor can be up to −14,638 nm/RIU, which is about 10.9% higher than that of SMF-sandwiched MZI. Temperature cross-sensitivity of our sensor is only 1.7 × 10
−6 RIU/°C. The proposed sensor has the potential application in real physical, chemical, and biological sensing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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