Thinned fiber Bragg gratings as refractive index sensors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1288-1294

  Iadicicco, Agostino ^b   Cusano, Andrea ^b   Campopiano, Stefania ^a,b   Cutolo, Antonello ^b   Giordano, Michele ^c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemical etching; Fiber bragg grating (FBG); Optical fiber; Refractive index sensor

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ETCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSORS;

ETCHING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 27844510955     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2005.859288     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. A. Cusano, A. Cutolo, M. Giordano, and L. Nicolais, "Optoelectronic refractive index measurements: Applications to smart polymer processing," IEEE Sensors J., vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 781-787, Dec. 2003.
2. R. Bernini, S. Campopiano, and L. Zeni, "Silicon micromachined hollow optical waveguides for sensing applications," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron., vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 106-110, Jan./Feb. 2002.
3. H. J. Patrick, A. D. Kersey, and F. Bucholtz, "Analysis of the response of long period fiber gratings to external index of refraction," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 1606-1612, Sep. 1998.
4. M. N. Ng, Z. Chen, and K. S. Chiang, "Temperature compensation of long-period fiber grating for refractive-index sensing with bending effect," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 361-363, Mar. 2002.
5. A. D. Kersey, M. A. Davis, H. J. Patrick, M. LeBlac, K. P. Koo, C. G. Askins, M. A. Putnam, and E. J. Friebele, "Fiber grating sensors," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1442-1463, Aug. 1997.
6. H. Kumazaki, Y. Yamada, H. Nakamura, and S. I. K. Hane, "Tunable wavelength filter using a Bragg grating fiber thinned by plasma etching," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 1206-1208, Nov. 2001.
7. A. Iadicicco, A. Cusano, A. Cutolo, R. Bernini, and M. Giordano, "Thinned fiber Bragg gratings as high sensitivity refractive index sensor," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1149-1151, Apr. 2004.
8. M. Monerie, "Propagation in doubly clad single-mode fibers," IEEE J. Quantun Electron., vol. QE-18, no. 4, pp. 381-388, Apr. 1982.
9. S. Kawakami and S. Nishida, "Characteristics of a doubly clad optical fiber with a low-index inner cladding," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. QE-10, no. 10, pp. 879-887, Dec. 1974.
10. E. R. Lyons and H. P. Lee, "Demonstration of an etched cladding fiber Bragg grating filter with reduced tuning force requirement," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 1626-1628, Dec. 1999.
11. R. M. Measures, Structural Monitoring With Fiber Optic Technology. London, U.K.: Academic, 2001.
12. A. Cusano, G. Breglio, A. Cutolo, A. Calabrò, M. Giordano, and L. Nicolais, "All fiber Bragg grating sensing system for static and dynamic strain measurements," in Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. "Structural Health Monitoring" SHM, 2001, pp. 1158-1164.
13. R. Kashyap, Fiber Bragg Gratings. New York: Academic, 1999.