Until now, a high-efficiency demodulation method for fiber Bragg grating(FBG) sensors has been a challenge.In this Letter, by employing multi-peak FBGs, an FBG sensor with a partial wavelength scan is proposed and ini...Until now, a high-efficiency demodulation method for fiber Bragg grating(FBG) sensors has been a challenge.In this Letter, by employing multi-peak FBGs, an FBG sensor with a partial wavelength scan is proposed and initially demonstrated. By demodulating a near-symmetrical multi-peak FBG and an asymmetrical multi-peak FBG in the strain experiment, sensor sensitivities of 1.02 pm/με and 1.01 pm/με are measured for the interrogation system, respectively. The average demodulation deviations for the two sensors are 1.81% and 0.4%,respectively. The proposed method is expected to realize high-efficiency and low-cost FBG interrogators.展开更多
A wideband wavelength-tunable 4×5 distributed feedback(DFB)semiconductor laser array based on the reconstructionequivalent-chirp(REC)technique using a simple tuning scheme is demonstrated.It consists of 20 DFB la...A wideband wavelength-tunable 4×5 distributed feedback(DFB)semiconductor laser array based on the reconstructionequivalent-chirp(REC)technique using a simple tuning scheme is demonstrated.It consists of 20 DFB lasers with 4×5matrix interleaving distributions,two-level cascaded Y-branch optical combiners,and one active semiconductor opticalamplifier(SOA),all in-series integrated on one chip.Unlike the traditional thermal-electric cooler(TEC)-based wavelength-tuning scheme,the tunable 4×5 REC-DFB laser array achieves a faster and broader continuous wavelength-tuningrange using TaN thin-film heaters integrated on the AlN submount.By changing the injection current of the TaN resistorfrom 0 to 190 mA,the proposed tunable laser achieves a wavelength-tuning range of∼2.5 nm per channel and a total tuningof over 50 nm.This study opens up new avenues for realizing cost-effective and wide-tuning-range semiconductor lasers.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Nos.2017YFA0206401 and 2018YFB2201801)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61435014)+1 种基金the Key R&D Program of Jiangsu Province(No.BE2017003)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20160907)
文摘Until now, a high-efficiency demodulation method for fiber Bragg grating(FBG) sensors has been a challenge.In this Letter, by employing multi-peak FBGs, an FBG sensor with a partial wavelength scan is proposed and initially demonstrated. By demodulating a near-symmetrical multi-peak FBG and an asymmetrical multi-peak FBG in the strain experiment, sensor sensitivities of 1.02 pm/με and 1.01 pm/με are measured for the interrogation system, respectively. The average demodulation deviations for the two sensors are 1.81% and 0.4%,respectively. The proposed method is expected to realize high-efficiency and low-cost FBG interrogators.
基金supported by the Chinese National Key Basic Research Special Fund(Nos.2017YFA0206401,2018YFA0704402,2018YFB2201801,and 2018YFE0201200)National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2020YFB2205800)+2 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61975075,61975076,and 62004094)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20200334)Jiangsu Science and Technology Project(No.BE2017003-2).
文摘A wideband wavelength-tunable 4×5 distributed feedback(DFB)semiconductor laser array based on the reconstructionequivalent-chirp(REC)technique using a simple tuning scheme is demonstrated.It consists of 20 DFB lasers with 4×5matrix interleaving distributions,two-level cascaded Y-branch optical combiners,and one active semiconductor opticalamplifier(SOA),all in-series integrated on one chip.Unlike the traditional thermal-electric cooler(TEC)-based wavelength-tuning scheme,the tunable 4×5 REC-DFB laser array achieves a faster and broader continuous wavelength-tuningrange using TaN thin-film heaters integrated on the AlN submount.By changing the injection current of the TaN resistorfrom 0 to 190 mA,the proposed tunable laser achieves a wavelength-tuning range of∼2.5 nm per channel and a total tuningof over 50 nm.This study opens up new avenues for realizing cost-effective and wide-tuning-range semiconductor lasers.
