Abstract
A fibre loop mirror sensor is proposed and demonstrated for strain and temperature measurements in experiment. In these schemes, fibre loop mirrors are constructed with single-mode-multimode-polarization-maintaining-multimode-single-mode optical fibre (SMPMS) structures. The strain and temperature characteristics of the sensor, depending on the lengths of multimode fibre (MMF) and polarization-maintaining fibre (PMF), are studied in the experiment. The results indicate that PMF and MMF lengths have less impact on strain sensitivity but a remarkable impact on temperature sensitivity, which is consistent with the theoretical analysis. The best strain and temperature sensitivities of an SMPMS structure sensor can reach up to 39.0 pm/με and 2.366 nm/°C, respectively. The sensors have the merits of easy fabrication, cost-efficiency and high temperature sensitivity and are quite suitable for fields requiring high-precision measurement.
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