Abstract
Compact fiber Bragg grating (FBG) interrogator is a widely investigated topic in the field of fiber optic sensing. Here we report a dense spectral arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) chip designed for FBG interrogation. By integrating a multimode interference (MMI) coupler with the AWG, bilateral input phase-differential optical signals were achieved at the input port of the AWG. This chip effectively doubles the output channel count without altering the device footprint, while concurrently reducing the channel spacing without modifying the bandwidth and spectral slope of the output spectrum. We further optimized the method for selecting interrogation channels. The results demonstrate that the dynamic range of the interrogation reaches 13.5 nm with an absolute wavelength resolution of 4 pm and an absolute accuracy better than 20 pm.
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