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- Title
Quasi-Distributed Active-Mode-Locking Laser Interrogation with Multiple Partially Reflecting Segment Sensors.
- Authors
Park, Chang Hyun; Kim, Gyeong Hun; Hong, Suck Won; Lee, Hwi Don; Kim, Chang-Seok
- Abstract
A new type of quasi-distributed sensor system is implemented using an active mode locking (AML) laser cavity with multiple partially reflecting segments. The mode locking frequency of the AML laser is linearly proportional to the overall lasing cavity length. To implement multiple resonators having multiple reflection points installed in a sensing fiber, two types of partial reflectors (PRs) are implemented for an in-line configuration, one with fiber Bragg grating and the other with a fiber Fabry–Perot interferometer. Since the laser has oscillated only when the modulation frequencies for the mode locking frequency match with the corresponding resonator lengths, it is possible to read the multiple partially reflecting segments along the sensing fiber. The difference between two corresponding mode locking frequencies is changing proportionally with the segment length variation between two PRs upon strain application. The segment length change caused by the applied strain can be successfully measured with a linear sensitivity between mode locking frequency and displacement, linearity over 0.99, and spatial position resolution below meter order.
- Subjects
BIOSENSORS; DISTRIBUTED Bragg reflectors; OPTICAL reflectors; FIBER Bragg gratings; OPTICAL instruments
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2018, Vol 18, Issue 12, p4128
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s18124128