Ultrasensitive magnetic field sensor based on an in-fiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer with a magnetic fluid component

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摘要 Anultrasensitivemagneticfieldsensorbasedonacompactin-fiberMach–Zehnderinterferometer(MZI)createdintwin-corefiber(TCF)isproposed,anditsperformanceisexperimentallydemonstrated.AsectionofTCFwassplicedbetweentwosectionsofstandardsingle-modefibers,andthenamicrochannelwasdrilledthroughonecoreoftheTCFbymeansoffemtosecondlasermicromachining.TheTCFwithonemicrochannelwasthenimmersedinawater-basedFe3O4magneticfluid(MF),formingadirectcomponentofthelightpropagationpath,andthensealedinacapillarytube,achievingamagneticsensingelement,whichmergestheadvantagesofanMZIwithanMF.Experimentswereconductedtoinvestigatethemagneticresponseoftheproposedsensor.Thedevelopedmagneticfieldsensorexhibitsalinearresponsewithinameasurementrangefrom5to9.5mTandanultrahighsensitivityof20.8nm/mT,which,toourbestknowledge,is2ordersofmagnitudegreaterthanotherpreviouslyreportedmagneticsensors.Theproposedsensorisexpectedtooffersignificantpotentialfordetectingweakmagneticfields.
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出版日期 2016年05月15日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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