We propose and experimentally demonstrate a compact in-line micro-fiber inclinometer based on deformation of FBG, where the micro-fiber FBG beam is fabricated by special chemical etching method and the fiber pendulum is gained by splicing a section of hollow core fiber filling with tin to the end of the micro-fiber beam. The experiment results show that as the inclination angle increasing from0⁰ to 20⁰, the increments of the transmission loss and Bragg wavelength of the sensor are 1.81dB, and 0.035nm, respectively. Simultaneously, the change of the bandwidth at -25dBm increases linearly from 0.86nm to 1.048nm and the bandwidth sensitivity to inclination angle is 7.24pm/deg. On the other hand, temperature cross issue is solved by monitoring the bandwidth at -25dBm because the bandwidth sensitivity to temperature is 0.089pm/℃from 20℃ to 200℃.

Date Published: 15 October 2013
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 8924, Fourth Asia Pacific Optical Sensors Conference, 89242U (15 October 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2034187

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8924:
Fourth Asia Pacific Optical Sensors Conference
Minghong Yang; Dongning Wang; Yun-Jiang Rao, Editor(s)