The stability of the demodulation system for extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric(EFPI) sensors is significant to dynamic signal recovery. In the wavelength-switched demodulation system, a phase interrogation with a wavelength-switched structure has been presented. Two reflected peaks were in perpendicular polarization direction and switched in the time-domain. However, the operation point of system affected output of the linearly-polarized beams seriously, and the stability of the system decreased and even failed to work. In order to solve this problem, a polarization control unit is added into the system in this paper. The modified demodulation system has been demonstrated to have a higher stability.
In this paper, a phase variation tracking method for the extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric (EFPI) voice sensing system is designed and experimentally demonstrated through a polarization-switched unit based on the combination of polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating (PMFBG). The measurements at two operation wavelengths are firstly achieved in one total-optical path, which eliminates the imbalance of optical power from the external disturbances, optical source fluctuation, different detecting response of photoelectric detector and different background noise. Two operation wavelengths reflected from a PMFBG for interference phase tracking are switched via an electro-optic modulator at a high switching speed of 10 kHz. Besides, an ellipse fitting-differential cross multiplication (EF-DCM) algorithm is proposed and illustrated for interrogating the variation of EFPI cavity gap length of the EFPI voice sensor effectively. Preliminary experimental results have proven that the polarization-switched system based on the EF-DCM algorithm could find potential applications in the fields of marine acoustic, medical science measurements, etc.
A novel current measuring method based on the magnetic controllable refractive index characteristic of magnetic fluid and fiber optic Fabry-Perot (F-P) interferometer is proposed and demonstrated. A current sensing probe composed of fiber optic F-P interferometer filled with magnetic fluid (MF) is analyzed theoretically and numerically. Based on the theoretical analysis and numerical simulation results, the structure of the fiber optic F-P current sensor is designed and fabricated experimentally. The relationship of the magnetic fluid at various magnetic field is measured experimentally and the numerical model of relationship between the refractive index of magnetic fluid and the characteristics of F-P current sensor is built up. The sensor has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, and high magnetic field measurement sensitivity. A high magnetic field measurement sensitivity of 0.034 nm/Gs is achieved with the magnetic field varied from 0 to 391.5Gs, and the experiment results are consistent with the theoretical analysis and numerical simulation.
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