Polarimetric temperature sensor: Extinction ratio and sensing length examination

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3200-3205

  Završnik, Miha ^a   Donlagić, Denis ^a   Donlagić, Dali ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Birefringent fiber sensor; Polarizing components; Temperature measurements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000917626     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601558     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. M. Corke, A. D. Kersey, D. A. Jackson, and J. D. C. Jones, "All-fibre 'Michelson' thermometer," Electron. Lett. 19(13), 471-472 (1983).
2. G. B. Hocker, "Fiber-optic sensing of pressure and temperature," Appl. Opt. 18(9), 1445-1448 (1979).
3. K. T. V. Grattan, "Fiber optic techniques for temperature sensing," Fiber Opt. Chem. Sensors and Biosensors 2, 151-192 (1992).
4. Y. Liu, B. M. A. Rahman, and K. T. V. Grattan, "Thermal-stress-induced birefringence in bow-tie optical fibers," Appl. Opt. 33(24), 5611-5616 (1994).
5. M. C. Mermelstein, "High-birefringence fiber-optic polarimeter with submicron phase delay detectability," J. Lightwave Technol. LT-4(4), 449-453 (1986).
6. R. C. Gauthier, "Analysis of a birefringent sensor's dependence on the blocking properties of linear polarizers and the input laser beam's polarization state," Appl. Opt. 35(31), 6271-6277 (1996).
7. W. Eickhoff, "Temperature sensing by mode-mode interference in birefringent optical fibers," Opt. Lett. 6(4), 204-206 (1981).
8. D. J. Webb, J. D. C. Jones, R. M. Taylor, D. A. Jackson, "Extended range monomode fibre-optics sensors: spectral and polarisation techniques," Int. J. Optoelectron. 3(3), 213-224 (1988).