All fiber MachZehnder interferometer based on suspended twin-core fiber

  • Orlando Frazão
  • , S. F.O. Silva
  • , J. Viegas
  • , José M. Baptista
  • , José L. Santos
  • , Jens Kobelke
  • , Kay Schuster

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Abstract

An all fiber MachZehnder interferometer using suspended twin-core fiber is described. Due to the birefringence of the fiber cores, two interferometers are obtained when the fiber is illuminated by a polarized light. Applying curvature or temperature to the sensing head, different sensitivities are observed. In order to discriminate curvature from temperature in the suspended twin-core fiber MachZehnder sensor, the matrix method is used.

Original languageBritish English
Article number5492158
Pages (from-to)1300-1302
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume22
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Interferometer
  • microstructured fiber
  • optical fiber sensor

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