An intrinsic fiber ring laser based sensor with saturable absorber

作者:Li L; Ren D X; Wu X Q*; Ge Q; Huang S; Yu B L
来源:Laser Physics, 2012, 22(12): 1847-1850.
DOI:10.1134/S1054660X12120183

摘要

A novel configuration of fiber ring laser acoustic sensor, which adopts single-mode fiber as sensing element, is proposed and demonstrated. Linewidth less than 1 kHz is achieved by introducing a segment of erbium-doped fiber in the reflecting arm as saturable absorber. A polarization independent unbalanced Michelson interrogation interferometer and phase generated carrier demodulation technique are adopted to recover signal. Experiments demonstrate that the phase sensitivity is 0.018 rad/nm in good linearity and equivalent minimum detect able length change reaches 19.1 pm.

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