Zusammenfassung: | |
Long-period fiber gratings (LPGs) are well known for their sensitivity to external influences, which make them interesting for a large number of sensing applications. For these applications, fibers with a high numerical aperture (i.e., fibers with highly germanium (Ge)-doped fused silica fiber cores) are more attractive since they are intrinsically photosensitive, as well as less sensitive to bend- and microbend-induced light attenuations. In this work, we introduce a novel method to inscribe LPGs into highly Ge-doped, single-mode fibers. By tapering the optical fiber, and thus, tailoring the effective indices of the core and cladding modes, for the first time, an LPG was inscribed into such fibers using the amplitude mask technique and a KrF excimer laser. Based on this novel method, sensitive LPG-based fiber optic sensors only a few millimeters in length can be incorporated in bend-insensitive fibers for use in various monitoring applications. Moreover, by applying the described inscription method, the LPG spectrum can be influenced and tailored according to the specific demands of a particular application. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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Lizenzbestimmungen: | CC BY 4.0 Unported - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Publikationstyp: | Article |
Publikationsstatus: | publishedVersion |
Erstveröffentlichung: | 2018 |
Schlagwörter (englisch): | Amplitude mask, Excimer laser, Germanium-doped fiber, High NA fiber, Long-period fiber grating, Single-mode fiber, Diffraction gratings, Excimer lasers, Fluorine compounds, Fused silica, Germanium, Liquefied petroleum gas, Optical fibers, Single mode fibers, Bend insensitive fiber, Germanium doped fiber, High NA, High numerical apertures, Long period fiber grating, Long Period Gratings, Monitoring applications, Single-mode optical fiber, Fiber optic sensors |
Fachliche Zuordnung (DDC): | 620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau |
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