Analysis of the Sapphire Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer Fringe Visibility under Different Excitation Conditions

Abstract

In this paper, a theoretical analysis of how the excitation conditions affect the sapphire fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer (SFPI) visibility was performed. The conditions were considered, in which an SFPI was excited by a single-mode fiber (SMF), a multimode fiber (MMF), and a fiber collimator. The finite difference method (FDM) was used to realize the numerical solution of the modal electric fields, and then, the modal excited distributions in the sapphire fiber and the SFPI visibility were calculated. The results showed that different numbers of modes were excited in sapphire fibers under different excitation conditions and finally affected the fringe visibility of the SFPI. The fiber collimator excited the fewest modes and the visibility remained at the highest level. Finally, an experiment was performed, and the experimental results agreed well with the theoretical results.

Keywords

Optical fiber sensing / sapphire fiber / Fabry-Perot interferometer / visibility / numerical solution

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