Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of the Directional RI Sensing Property of Tilted Fiber Grating

Yuezhen Sun; Tean Lu; Yarien Moreno; Liangye Li; Hushan Wang; Kaiming Zhou; Qizhen Sun; Zhijun Yan; Deming Liu; Lin Zhang

doi:10.1109/JLT.2020.3027947

Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of the Directional RI Sensing Property of Tilted Fiber Grating

Yuezhen Sun, Tean Lu, Yarien Moreno, Liangye Li, Hushan Wang, Kaiming Zhou, Qizhen Sun, Zhijun Yan, Deming Liu, Lin Zhang

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In this article, we have theoretically and experimentally investigated the unique vector refractive index (RI) sensing property of tilted fiber grating (TFG). Due to the orthogonal symmetric grating structure, TFGs would mainly achieve the coupling between the fiber core mode and the two orthogonal polarization LP1m of cladding mode. And the numerical simulation results showed that the coupling coefficient between fundamental core mode to the LP1m cladding mode is higher than the others. In the experiment, we have furthermore observed the cladding mode field distribution of excessively TFG (Ex-TFG) and long period fiber grating (LPFG), which indicated that the evanescent field distribution of cladding mode of TFG shows an asymmetric near field distribution with two lobes oriented along the fast axis of TFG, and the one of LPFG has a circularly symmetric cladding mode field distribution. In addition, by employing side-immersion method, we have measured the azimuth RI sensitivities of Ex-TFG, tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) and LPFG, which exhibited that both Ex-TFG and TFBG have shown a direction-dependency RI sensitivity, and the RI sensitivity with side-immersion along fast axis is almost half of the one along slow axis, and the RI sensitivity of LPFG is azimuth independent. Overall, the experiment results show that the TFGs inherently show unique directional RI sensing property, which could be potentially applied in vector sensing area.

Original language	English
Article number	9210176
Pages (from-to)	674-681
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	39
Issue number	2
Early online date	30 Sept 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2020.3027947
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2021

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Coupled mode analysis
fiber gratings
optical sensors
vector measurement

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