Fiber optic birefringence enhanced accelerometer based on polarized modal interferometer

摘要： An inline fiber optic birefringence enhanced accelerometer (FOBEA) which applies one polarizer and a ten-meter high birefringence fiber wrapped on a transducer cylinder is proposed. Birefringence of polarized modes in panda polarization maintaining fiber (PMF) is enhanced by fiber coating and cylinders of different parameters. Accelerometers with copper cylinder (FOBEA-1) and polyurethane cylinder (FOBEA-2) are fabricated, the tested average sensitivities are 1.06rad/g (20-3800 Hz) and 16.97 rad/g (20-2000 Hz). The experimental results show the birefringence gain of FOBEA-1 is in good consistent with theoretical calculation of 1.07 and an additional birefringence gain of FOBEA-2 is 5.52 because the polyurethane cylinder works as fiber coating with the thickness of 1.21 mm. Temperature crosstalk is also investigated.