A novel fiber-laser-based fiber Bragg grating strain sensor with high-birefringence Sagnac fiber loop mirror

作者:Xu Ou*; Lu Shaohua; Feng Suchun; Jian Shuisheng
来源:Chinese Optics Letters, 2008, 6(11): 818-820.
DOI:10.3788/COL20080611.0818

摘要

A novel fiber-laser-based strain sensor is proposed all experimentally demonstrated. The laser cavity is composed of a high-birefringence, Sagnac fiber loop mirror (HiBi-SFLM) and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) which also acts as a stain-sensing element. In the linear region of the HiBi-SFLM reflection spectrum, when the strain applied on the FBG makes the Bragg grating wavelength shift, the laser output power changes due to reflectivity variation of the HiBi-SFLM. Experimental results show that the laser output power varies almost linearly with the applied strain. The measurement of the output power can be performed by a conventional photo-detector.