塑料光纤的研究与应用进展

塑料制成的光纤具有轻质、柔软、低成本等特点,可用于通信、图像传输、照明与装饰等领域,实现与其它光纤优势互补的各种功能.在通信领域,渐变折射率塑料光纤实现了10Gbps@100m的消费级传输速率和40Gbps的测试级传输速率;在图像传输领域,已有0.45mm直径@7400像素和1.5mm直径@13 000像素的传像束,以及分辨率高达256lp/mm的光纤面板产品;在塑料光纤激光器领域,有关增益介质、光纤长度、光纤结构等与激光器/放大器的特征性能间关系的理论与实验研究逐步深入;在装饰和照明领域,已有用塑料光纤开发的太阳光光纤照明、造型光纤照明、光纤毯治疗仪等装置.本文就塑料光纤在上述领域的最新研究和应用情况进行综述.     

光纤超声传感器及应用研究进展

光纤超声传感器通过检测光纤内传输光的强度、波长、相位、偏振态等参数感知超声波的相关信息.相比于传统的电类超声换能器,光纤超声传感器能够实现宽频带超声波信号的高灵敏探测,且其良好的抗干扰能力和复用性,可有效地提高超声波探测的可靠性和效率,在水下国防安全、生物成像、无损探伤、地震物理模型成像等领域具有巨大的应用潜力.目前,按照传感结构,光纤超声传感器可分为光纤强度调制型、光纤干涉型和光纤光栅型,并在不同方面发挥着各自的优势,均受到关注.本文主要综述了这几种传感器的传感机理、实现方法、发展现状,总结了光纤超声传感器的几个应用领域及面临的科学技术挑战,重点讨论了光纤超声传感器作为一种新技术应用于地震物理模型成像.     

塑料光纤及其应用

 塑料光纤顾名思义,即构成光纤的纤芯与包层都是塑料材料。与石英光纤相比,塑料光纤(POF)价格便宜、制造简单、接续容易、抗冲击强度高和抗辐射等优点,被认为是将取代金属电缆而成为短距离高速传输媒介的核心。1.塑料光纤的发展历程塑料光纤已有30多年的历史,最初用于传光、照明和传像等,其后在汽车、医疗和工业控制等方面也取得了成熟的应用和推广,最近在宽带通信领域中也取得了突破性进展。最早的塑料光纤是美国杜邦公司于1964年开发的以聚甲苯丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)为纤芯的塑料光纤,其传输损耗大约为1000dB/km。     

发展中的塑料光纤

一提到光纤通信,人们就联想到石英(玻璃)光纤,实际上塑料光纤(ＰＯＦ)在20世纪60年代就发明了,并已被广泛用于传感器、照明和装饰等方面.塑料光纤与玻璃光纤相比,其毫米级的尺寸使它在安装和连接方面都比较容易,其连续制造过程使其生产费用低廉,所以ＰＯＦ系统具有成本低的潜在能力.然而,它的高损耗、低带宽和长期可靠性方面的问题已经使ＰＯＦ在许多的通信应用中遇到了较难克服的困难.近年来,随着全氟化塑料的应用和渐变折射率(ＧＩ)型ＰＯＦ的开发,已经在实验室内取得了衰减降到50ｄＢ/ｋｍ数量级(1300ｎｍ)的ＧＩ型ＰＯＦ.ＧＩ型ＰＯＦ的…     

S型光纤锥的研究进展

随着新型微加工工艺的发展,传统的锥型光纤发展派生出数千种不同的微结构光纤.其中,S型光纤锥由于其体积小、质量轻、抗电磁干扰以及可以直接嵌入结构化系统的灵活性得到了迅猛地发展.随着对S型光纤锥研究的深入,基于S锥的各种结构和功能的光纤传感器不断地被提出,用于测量温度、应变、折射率、湿度和磁场等,不仅丰富了光纤传感器的种类,更加深了人们对传感机理的认识.本文全面回顾了S型光纤锥的研究进展,包括传感原理、制备方法、各种传感结构组合以及传感应用等,并对其发展进行了展望.     

光纤法布里-珀罗干涉温度压力传感技术研究进展

光纤法布里-珀罗干涉温度和压力传感器具有灵敏度高、制作简单、成本低、体积小和抗电磁干扰能力强等优点,已被广泛应用于军事和民用领域.在某些环境恶劣,如具有强电磁干扰和腐蚀性,或提供给传感器的安装空间非常有限的特殊工业领域,微型光纤温度和压力传感器发挥着重要的作用,国内外诸多高校、科研院所都在对其进行研究.本文综述了光纤法布里-珀罗干涉仪的基本原理、制备技术、及其压力和温度传感应用的研究进展.详细介绍了湿法化学腐蚀制备法、电弧放电制备法、飞秒激光制备法、聚合物辅助制备法等常见光纤法布里-珀罗腔传感器的制作工艺,分析了不同制作工艺的优缺点;详细介绍了光纤法布里-珀罗干涉仪在温度传感、压力传感和温压一体传感领域的应用;最后对光纤法布里-珀罗干涉温度压力传感器的发展进行了总结和展望.     

塑料光纤纤端光场测试结果及分析

对纤端光场进行了理论分析,分别利用塑料光纤和多模光纤作为接收光纤对塑料光纤的出射纤端光场进行了测量,并与理论分析结果进行了比较,给出了合理的调和参数.传输距离较长的塑料光纤由于高阶模的泄漏,纤端光场分布非常接近高斯分布.实验结果表明了理论分析结果和调和参数选择的合理性.     

侧边抛磨的U型金溅射塑料光纤等离子体共振传感器

为了测量溶液折射率变化，对塑料光纤纤芯表面的纤芯-金层-液体的3层膜结构进行研究，制作了一种使用U型结构并结合侧边抛磨方法的表面等离子体共振传感器。将截取的一段塑料光纤弯曲成为U型，并在烘箱中通过较高温度使这段光纤的曲率固定，对弯曲部分的外表面进行抛光，暴露该位置塑料光纤芯层并在其上溅射金纳米薄膜层，将制备好的传感器浸入不同折射率的液体中，使用光谱分析仪观察光谱的移动。实验结果表明:当塑料光纤SPR传感器测量折射率变化范围在1.333~1.406的液体时，可以通过光谱观察到随着液体折射率的增大，等离子体共振吸收峰位置也不断地向波长增大的方向移动，并且二者之间存在线性关系，其灵敏度为7.5×10-4 RIU/nm。该传感器探头具有灵敏度高、小型化、易制备、低成本的特点。     

长距离分布式光纤传感技术研究进展

分布式光纤传感技术是光纤传感领域的重要组成部分,具有以下突出优势:无需在光纤上制作传感器,传感光纤集传感与传输于一体,可实现远距离、大范围的传感与组网;可连续感知光纤传输路径上每一点的温度、应变、振动等物理参量的空间分布和变化信息,单根光纤上能获得多达数万点的传感信息.由于在长距离连续传感方面具有不可替代的优势,分布式光纤传感技术在周界安防、石油电力、大型结构等领域的安全监控方面具有非常广阔的应用前景.本文主要介绍电子科技大学光纤传感与器件研究团队在长距离分布式光纤静(布里渊光时域分析仪)、动(相位敏感型光时域反射仪)态参量传感技术取得的研究进展,包括基础与应用研究两个方面.     

塑料光纤微分模延迟的频域相移法研究

塑料光纤的微分模延迟数据对研究塑料光纤的色散特性具有非常重要的意义。采用频域相移法测量了不同长度的两种折射率分布塑料光纤：阶跃型塑料光纤(SI—POF)和渐变型塑料光纤(GI—POF)的微分模延迟曲线。实验结果表明,由于短光纤可以忽略模式耦合和模式损耗,1m塑料光纤的微分模延迟测量值与理论计算值吻合得非常好。因此,频域相移法可以简单、方便、精确地测量塑料光纤的微分模延迟。此外,通过比较不同长度塑料光纤的微分模延迟曲线的变化,可在一定程度上分析光纤中存在的模式耦合。     

光纤传感器系统中的功能光纤

本文结合光纤传感器的应用实例,对光纤传感器中光纤的选用进行了比较详细的讨论.光纤传感器是一种新型和具有一定特殊应用的传感器,如光纤陀螺、光纤流量计等,由于其自身的特点,具有其他传感器无法替代的优势.在这些传感器中,光纤的选用是致关重要的,特别是传感器用光纤的特性及对光纤传感器的影响;本文提出了光纤传感器设计过程中选用光纤的一些重要依据并论及了发展传感器用光纤对光纤传感器的重要意义.     

新型1×4塑料光纤功率耦合器的研制

提出了一种新型的塑料光纤功率耦合器 ,该耦合器与传统的拉锥型和混合棒塑料光纤耦合器不同。理论分析了它的损耗特性。该耦合器基于塑料光纤本身的热特性 ,分别将塑料光纤进行拉锥和热缩构成耦合器的两端 ,结构简单 ,制作容易 ,实验结果表明其性能也可满足塑料光纤短距离通信网的要求     

全光纤低相干光纤位移传感技术

提出并演示了一种由两光纤构成的杨氏干涉解调系统的全光纤低相干光纤位移传感器系统。该技术从根本上避免了光源频率、光强的波动，及光在传输过程中由系统带来的损耗、光的偏振方向的改变引起的信号衰落问题。其结构简单，易于调整，测量分辨率可达０．０５４ｍｍ。     

Optical amplification of Eu(DBM)3Phen-doped polymer optical fiber

A preform technique is used to prepare a step-index (SI) polymer optical fiber (POF) doped with Eu(DBM)3Phen. The gain (5.7 dB) at 613 nm of the doped SI POF with Eu3+ content of 4000 in 10(6) wt., 0.4-mm core diameter, and 30-cm fiber length is observed at ambient temperature by end pumping with a YAG at 355 nm. The input signal light is approximately 0.2 W. The results show the possibility of signal gain in a rare-earth-doped POF amplifier and the potential of a polymer doped with rare-earth ions as an active optical device.     

High-sensitivity temperature sensor based on Bragg grating in BDK-doped photosensitive polymer optical fiber

A single-mode polymer optical fiber (POF) with highly photosensitive core doped with benzil dimethyl ketal (BDK) is fabricated and used for writing Bragg grating through the two-beam interference method. The Bragg wavelength of the grating is about 1570 nm, while the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the reflection peak is 0.3 nm. The temperature response of POF Bragg grating is theoretically analyzed and experimentally measured in contrast to silica optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG). The result shows that the temperature character of POF Bragg grating is negative, which is opposite to the silica optical FBG. The absolute value of the temperature response of POF Bragg grating is one order of magnitude higher than that of the silica optical FBG, making POF Bragg grating appear to be very attractive for constructing temperature sensors with high resolution.     

The internal strain of three-dimensional braided composites with co-braided FBG sensors

The performance analysis of three-dimensional (3-D) braided composites is made difficult by their complex and interlacing structure, and is still under development. To get complete first-hand data on the material parameters of these composites, co-braided optical fiber sensors (OFS) can be used to measure the internal strain. This information is helpful for subsequent stiffness predictions and failure analysis. This paper introduces a method of incorporating OFS into braided composites, and establishes a constitutive theoretical model for the hybrid material. Experiments are conducted to measure the internal strain of specimens under tension, and the results are compared to theoretical predictions.     

塑料光纤相位调制灵敏度的研究

研究了压电涂层PMMA纤芯塑料光纤中的相位调制.射频信号通过对光纤外层的压电涂层作用,使纤芯中产生应变,从而对光纤中的光信号进行相位调制.数值计算结果表明,与传统的石英光纤相比,PMMA塑料光纤的相位调制的灵敏度要高数十倍以上.     

Acrylic and metal based Y-branch plastic optical fiber splitter with optical NOA63 polymer waveguide taper region

We proposed a simple low-cost acrylic and metal-based Y-branch plastic optical fiber (POF) splitter which utilizes a low cost optical polymer glue NOA63 as the main waveguiding medium at the waveguide taper region. The device is composed of three sections: an input POF waveguide, a middle waveguide taper region and output POF waveguides. A desktop high speed CNC engraver is utilized to produce the mold inserts used for the optical devices. Short POF fibers are inserted into the engraved slots at the input and output ports. UV curable optical polymer glue NOA63 is injected into the waveguide taper region and cured. The assembling is completed when the top plate is positioned to enclose the device structure and connecting screws are secured. Both POF splitters have an average insertion loss of 7.8 dB, coupling ratio of 55: 45 and 57: 43 for the acrylic and metal-based splitters respectively. The devices have excess loss of 4.82 and 4.73 dB for the acrylic and metal-based splitters respectively.     

Fabrication of 1×2 asymmetric plastic optical fiber coupler for portable optical access-card system

We proposed a simple low-cost acrylic and metal-based Y-branch plastic optical fiber (POF) splitter which utilizes a low cost optical polymer glue NOA63 as the main waveguiding medium at the waveguide taper region. The device is composed of three sections: an input POF waveguide, a middle waveguide taper region and output POF waveguides. A desktop high speed CNC engraver is utilized to produce the mold inserts used for the optical devices. Short POF fibers are inserted into the engraved slots at the input and output ports. UV curable optical polymer glue NOA63 is injected into the waveguide taper region and cured. The assembling is completed when the top plate is positioned to enclose the device structure and connecting screws are secured. Both POF splitters have an average insertion loss of 7.8 dB, coupling ratio of 55: 45 and 57: 43 for the acrylic and metal-based splitters respectively. The devices have excess loss of 4.82 and 4.73 dB for the acrylic and metal-based splitters respectively.     

Observation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in polymer optical fiber with pump-probe technique

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in a perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fiber (POF) with 120 μm core diameter was experimentally observed for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, at 1.55 μm wavelength with the pump-probe technique. Compared to spontaneous Brillouin scattering previously reported, the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) was detected with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio, even with a short POF (1 m) and scrambled polarization state. We also investigated the BGS dependences on probe power and temperature, which indicate that SBS in a POF measured with this technique can be utilized to develop high-accuracy temperature sensing systems.