Refractive index optical fiber sensor based on tapered long period gratings

• Main Author: Zhang, Bo
• Other Authors: Tjin Swee Chuan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60444
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Adiabatically tapered long period fiber grating (LPG) is a new type of grating based sensor that shows high sensitivity to refractive index change of the ambient medium. Compared with fiber Bragg gating (FBG), the diffraction structure in LPG is inscribed by Ultraviolet (UV) laser source...