Post chemical Etching of Tapered Seven-Core Fiber Sensor for Enhanced Figure of Merit

Tian, Zhen, Yao, Yicun, Yuan, Jinhui, Zhang, Liqiang, Chen, Nan Kuang, Zhang, Yanqing, Wang, Minghong and Wu, Qiang (2022) Post chemical Etching of Tapered Seven-Core Fiber Sensor for Enhanced Figure of Merit. Optics Letters, 47 (18). pp. 4672-4675. ISSN 0146-9592

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.469107

Abstract

A post chemical etching process to a tapered seven-core fiber (TSCF) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to effectively adjust the mode profiles of high-order supermodes, aimed to improve the figure of merit (FOM). The experimental results show that the FOM of an etched TSCF is as high as 1431.36 1/RIU, a 7.32-times enhancement compared with that of TSCF without etching, provided the TSCF has the same taper waist diameter of 19.20 µm. The proposed method opens a new, to the best of our knowledge, method for optimizing optical fiber sensor performance.

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Additional Information: Funding information: This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61875247, 62175097, 62065013), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (ZR2020QF086) and by Liaocheng University under Grants (31805180101, 319190301).
Subjects: F200 Materials Science
F300 Physics
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 24 Aug 2022 10:37
Last Modified: 08 Sep 2023 03:30
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49948

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