Spatially Modulated Fiber Speckle for High-Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensing

Penglai Guo; Huanhuan Liu; Zhitai Zhou; Jie Hu; Yuntian Wang; Xiaoling Peng; Xun Yuan; Yiqing Shu; Yingfang Zhang; Hong Dang; Guizhen Xu; Aoyan Zhang; Chenlong Xue; Jiaqi Hu; Liyang Shao; Jinna Chen; Jianqing Li; Perry Ping Shum

doi:10.3390/s23156814

Sensors (Jul 2023)

Spatially Modulated Fiber Speckle for High-Sensitivity Refractive Index Sensing

Penglai Guo,
Huanhuan Liu,
Zhitai Zhou,
Jie Hu,
Yuntian Wang,
Xiaoling Peng,
Xun Yuan,
Yiqing Shu,
Yingfang Zhang,
Hong Dang,
Guizhen Xu,
Aoyan Zhang,
Chenlong Xue,
Jiaqi Hu,
Liyang Shao,
Jinna Chen,
Jianqing Li,
Perry Ping Shum

Affiliations

Penglai Guo: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
Huanhuan Liu: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Zhitai Zhou: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Jie Hu: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Yuntian Wang: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Xiaoling Peng: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
Xun Yuan: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
Yiqing Shu: Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, Foshan University, 18 Jiang-Wan-Yi-Lu, Foshan 528000, China
Yingfang Zhang: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
Hong Dang: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Guizhen Xu: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Aoyan Zhang: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Chenlong Xue: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Jiaqi Hu: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Liyang Shao: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Jinna Chen: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
Jianqing Li: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau 999078, China
Perry Ping Shum: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23156814
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 23, no. 15
p. 6814

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A fiber speckle sensor (FSS) based on a tapered multimode fiber (TMMF) has been developed to measure liquid analyte refractive index (RI) in this work. By the lateral and axial offset of input light into TMMF, several high-order modes are excited in TMMF, and the speckle pattern is spatially modulated, which affects an asymmetrical speckle pattern with a random intensity distribution at the output of TMMF. When the TMMF is immersed in the liquid analyte with RI variation, it influences the guided modes, as well as the mode interference, in TMMF. A digital image correlations method with zero-mean normalized cross-correlation coefficient is explored to digitize the speckle image differences, analyzing the RI variation. It is found that the lateral- and axial-offsets-induced speckle sensor can enhance the RI sensitivity from 6.41 to 19.52 RIU−1 compared to the one without offset. The developed TMMF speckle sensor shows an RI resolution of 5.84 × 10−5 over a linear response range of 1.3164 to 1.3588 at 1550 nm. The experimental results indicate the FSS provides a simple, efficient, and economic approach to RI sensing, which exhibits an enormous potential in the image-based ocean-sensing application.

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ISSN: 1424-8220 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Chemical technology
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