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A temperature-independent fibre-optic magnetic-field sensor using thin-core fibre tailored fibre Bragg grating

  • Qin Tian
  • , Zhongyao Feng
  • , Qiangzhou Rong
  • , Yun Wan
  • , Xueguang Qiao
  • , Manli Hu
  • , Hangzhou Yang
  • , Ruohui Wang
  • , Zhihua Shao
  • , Tingting Yang

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Abstract

A temperature-independent fibre-optic magnetic-field sensor is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The device consists of a thin-core fibre (TCF) sandwiched in the upstream of a fibre Bragg grating (FBG). Because of the core-mismatch between the TCF and the single-mode fibre (SMF), the core mode is coupled to the cladding modes within the TCF cladding, and parts of them are recoupled back to the leading-in SMF by the downstream FBG. The cladding modes are sensitive to the ambient refractive index (RI), and therefore have the ability to respond to a RI change in the magnetic fluid determined by the ambient magnetic field. The intensities of the cladding-mode resonances are highly sensitive to the magnetic field change, while, in contrast, the resonance wavelengths always remain unchanged. This property can allow the sensor to act as a power-referenced reflection probe for magnetic field measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)169-172
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Communications
Volume393
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Magnetic field sensing
  • Magnetic fluid
  • Optical fibre sensor
  • Refractive index sensing

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