Flexible Optical Waveguide Bent Loss Attenuation Effects Analysis and Modeling Application to an Intrinsic Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor

Mustapha Remouche, Francis Georges, Patrick Meyrueis

Laboratoire des Systèmes Photoniques, école Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg,.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2012.21001                

Abstract

The temperature dependence of the bending loss light energy in multimode optical fibers is reported and analyzed. The work described in this paper aims to extend an initial previous analysis concerning planar optical waveguides, light energy loss, to circular optical waveguides. The paper also presents à novel intrinsic fiber optic sensing device base on this study allowing to measure temperatures parameters. The simulation results are validated theoretically in the case of silica/silicone optical fiber. A comparison is done between results obtained with an optical fiber and the results obtained from the previous curved optical planar waveguide study. It is showed that the bending losses and the temperature measurement range depend on the curvature radius of an optical fiber or waveguide and the kind of the optical waveguide on which the sensing process is implemented.

Keywords

Optical Fiber; Losses; Curvature; Sensor; Temperature; Micro Technology

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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