Abstract
Two dual-mode fibers in tandem act as unbalanced sensor and recovery interferometers. We investigate how coherence-tuned interrogation of the remote sensor fiber is affected by the coherence properties of the multimode laser diode source and the modal group index difference of the dual-mode fibers. The parameters for optimized sensor performance are ascertained. We focus particularly on the recovery of small optical phase modulations induced by periodic strain. Using homodyne phase tracking, stability of the detected ac signal is achieved to within /spl plusmn/10/sup -3/ in the presence of additional, quasistatic phase drifts of large amplitude. The minimum detectable differential modal phase modulation is 5 /spl mu/rad rms//spl radic/Hz at 70 Hz. As an example, remote interrogation of a piezoelectric quartz high-voltage transducer is demonstrated.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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