A dual-wavelength fiber laser sensor with temperature and strain discrimination

This work presents a dual-wavelength C-band erbium-doped fiber laser assisted by an artificial backscatter reflector. This fiber-based reflector, inscribed by femtosecond laser direct writing, was fabricated into a single mode fiber with a length of 32 mm. The dual-wavelength laser obtained, centere...

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Autores: Sánchez Herrera, Arturo, Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana, Roldán Varona, Pablo, Durán Escudero, Miguel, Rodríguez Cobo, Luis|||0000-0002-2068-2956, López Higuera, José Miguel|||0000-0002-8615-8487, López Amo, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/26754
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/26754
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Artificial backscatter reflector
C-band
Erbium-doped fiber laser
Femtosecond laser
Longitudinal mode behavior
Multiparameter sensor
Random fiber grating
Simultaneous measurement
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Sumario:This work presents a dual-wavelength C-band erbium-doped fiber laser assisted by an artificial backscatter reflector. This fiber-based reflector, inscribed by femtosecond laser direct writing, was fabricated into a single mode fiber with a length of 32 mm. The dual-wavelength laser obtained, centered at 1527.7 nm and 1530.81 nm, showed an optical signal-to-noise ratio over 46 dB when pumped at 150 mW. Another feature of this laser was that the power difference between the two channels was just 0.02 dB, regardless of the pump power, resulting in a dual emission laser with high equalization. On the other hand, an output power level and a central wavelength instability as low as 0.3 dB and 0.01 nm were measured, in this order for both channels. Moreover, the threshold pump power was 40 mW. Finally, the performance of this dual-wavelength fiber laser enhanced with a random reflector for sensing applications was studied, achieving the simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature with sensitivities around 1 pm/ue and 9.29 pm/°C, respectively.