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High-sensitivity distributed transverse load sensor with an elliptical-core fiber based on Brillouin dynamic gratings

  • Yongkang Dong*
  • , Lei Teng
  • , Peilin Tong
  • , Taofei Jiang
  • , Hongying Zhang
  • , Tao Zhu
  • , Liang Chen
  • , Xiaoyi Bao
  • , Zhiwei Lu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Harbin University of Science and Technology
  • Chongqing University
  • University of Ottawa

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Abstract

high-sensitivity distributed transverse load sensor based on Brillouin dynamic gratings (BDGs) is proposed and demonstrated experimentally for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. The principle is to measure the transverse- load-induced birefringence change through exciting and probing a BDG in an elliptical-core polarizationmaintaining fiber. A distributed measurement of transverse load is demonstrated experimentally using a 10 m sensing fiber, which features high sensitivity to a transverse load with a measurement accuracy as high as 0.8 × 10-3 N/mm at a 20 cm spatial resolution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5003-5006
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume40
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

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