Multi-hole plastic optical fiber force sensor based on femtosecond laser micromachining

Abstract

© 2014 Chinese Optics Letters We study the theoretical and experimental effects of hole quantity and inter-inter-hole spacing on insertion loss for using femtosecond laser to make bend-sensitive multi-hole plastic optical fiber (POF), and also analyze the mechanism of bending loss in multi-hole POF. A force sensor based on bending loss of the multi-hole POF is fabricated. The measurement ranges from 0 to 65 N, and the maximum output change exceeds 15.51 dB with good linearity and repeatability, and the sensitivity is 0.24 dB/N.