Sensors based on recycled optical fibers destroyed by the catastrophic fuse effect

abstract

In the last decades the fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) and Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) micro cavities based sensors have become one of the most attractive optical fiber sensing technologies. However, its production requires a significant economical investment. We propose a cost effective solution based on micro cavity generated by the recycling of optical fibers destroyed through the catastrophic fuse effect. This technique considerably reduces the experimental complexity and the production costs. In this paper, the application of these sensors in the monitoring of several parameters, such as refractive index, pressure, strain and temperature is presented.

keywords

FEMTOSECOND LASER; SENSITIVITY

subject category

Engineering; Optics; Physics

authors

Andre, PS; Domingues, MF; Antunes, P; Alberto, N; Frias, AR; Ferreira, RAS

our authors

acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) through the Ph. D. fellowship SFRH/BD/69097/2010 and the Post-doctoral fellowships SFRH/BPD/7814/2011 and SFRH/BPD/ 76735/2011. FEDER, COMPETE are also acknowledged (LA0011/2013/CICECO-FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037271 and PEstOE/EEI/LA0008/2013).

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