Refractive Index Sensing With Mach–Zehnder Interferometer Based on Concatenating Two Single-Mode Fiber Tapers

By Zhaobing Tian, Scott S.-H. Yam, J. Barnes, W. Bock, P. Greig, J. Fraser, Hans-Peter Loock, R. Oleschuk. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2008

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• In-Line Abrupt Taper Optical Fiber Mach–Zehnder Interferometric Strain Sensor (2009, background): “Previously, we have reported the use of abrupt fiber tapers [10], [11] to replace LPGs in the RI sensor domain that allowed for similar sensitivity [4] as the LPG-based device, but with a lower fabrication cost (i.”
• High-Sensitivity Mach–Zehnder Interferometric Temperature Fiber Sensor Based on a Waist-Enlarged Fusion Bitaper (2011, background): “So far, various configurations and fabrication techniques have been exploited to construct all-fiber MZ interferometers, including single mode-multimode–single-mode fiber structure (SMS) [1], [2], mismatched or misaligned core diameter [3]–[5], small-waist fiber tapers [6]–[8], pair of 3-dB long per”
• Single-Mode Fiber Refractive Index Sensor Based on Core-Offset Attenuators (2008, background): “Compared with the result of the abrupt-taper-based Mach–Zehnder interferometer [6], which has an extinction ratio of more than 23 dB and a minimum loss of 3 dB, the extinction ratio is considerably smaller.”
• In-Line Single-Mode Optical Fiber Interferometric Refractive Index Sensors (2009, background): “Given the wavelength resolution, the OSA can be as small as 10 pm, the minimum RI difference in Mach‐Zehnder interferometer ( mm) can be as small as 5.8 10 [ 15 ].”
• Interferometric Fiber Optic Sensors (2012, background): “By tapering a fiber at two points along the fiber, we can form an effective in-line MZI as shown in Figure 7(f) [55,56].”