A new method is presented to tune Bragg wavelength slightly by using hydrofluoric acid to etch fiber cladding.The spectral characteristics before and after etching and the change properties of Bragg wavelength are studied.Cladding modes are reduced during the etching process.High-order cladding modes are converted into radiation modes,and energy of cladding modes is coupled to the outside.As the cladding radius decreases,the Bragg wavelength shifts to longer direction.Experimental results show that this method can tune Bragg wavelength slightly,and the tunable range is 0.002-0.120 nm.
A fiber Bragg grating strain sensor,whose reflection bandwidth is insensitive to temperature,is presented.The cross-sec-tional area is designed to change linearly.Under axial stress,there is a linear relationship between stress and average strain.Experimental results show that when temperature increases,reflection center wavelength shifts to longer wavelength,and there is a good linear relationship between center wavelength and temperature.When stress increases,reflection center wavelength shifts to longer wavelength,and reflection bandwidth increases.There are good linear relationships between reflection center wavelength and stress as well as reflection bandwidth and stress.
A low-cost, compact, and lossless temperature sensor based on a twin-core fiber (TCF) is demonstrated and manufactured by splicing two single-mode fibers to the ends of a TCF. The extinction ratio of the comb transmission spectrum is bigger than 15 dB, and the temperature sensitivity of the coupling angle is –0.02 rad/(°C· m) at–30–90°C and –0.032 rad/(°C· m) at 90–175°C. Finite element method is used to calculate the supermodes of the TCF, and the result agrees well with the experiment.
