Cascaded tilted fiber Bragg grating for enhanced refractive index sensing

Biqiang Jiang*, Zhixuan Bi, Shouheng Wang, Teli Xi, Kaiming Zhou, Lin Zhang, Jianlin Zhao

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Abstract

We proposed and experimentally demonstrated a cascaded tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) for enhanced refractive index sensing. The TFBG is UV-inscribed in series in ordinary single-mode fiber (SMF) and reduced-diameter SMF with the same tilt angle, and then excites two sets of superposed spectral combs of cladding modes. The cascaded TFBG with total length of 18 mm has a much wider wavelength range over 100 nm and narrower wavelength separation than that of a TFBG only in the SMF, enabling an enlarged range and a higher accuracy of refractive index measurement. The fabricated TFBG with the merits of enhanced sensing capability and temperature self-calibration presents great potentials in the biochemical sensing applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number114220
JournalChinese Physics B
Volume27
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Oct 2018

Keywords

  • Fiber optics sensors
  • Refractive index measurement
  • Tilted fiber Bragg grating

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