Abstract
We demonstrate a quadrature phase-shifted optical demodulation scheme for low-coherence fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors. The main part of the demodulator is a fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) constructed with a 1 × 2 fiber coupler, a 3 × 3 fiber coupler, and fiber delay lines. This configuration allows us to generate quadrature phase-shifted interference signals simultaneously, thus eliminating the problem of ambiguous phase discrimination. The path length difference of the MZI is adjustable to adapt to sensors with arbitrary gaps. A great phase stability of the MZI has been obtained by using identical optical components in its two optical paths. The demodulator has been applied to a fiber-optic vibrometer. Measurement of vibrations with amplitudes from 0.67 nm to 12.3 µm has been demonstrated.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7319-7329 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - 2019 |
Funding
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DE-AC05-00OR22725). We acknowledge A. Webster, S. Murray III, and C. Long for their technical help, and M. Wendel and A. Aleksandrov for their support.