title: Miniature all-silica fiber optic pressure and acoustic sensors.
abstract: We present a miniature diaphragm-based Fabry-Perot (F-P) interferometric fiber optic sensor fabricated by novel techniques for pressure or acoustic wave measurement that is only approximately 0.32 mm in diameter. By choosing different diaphragm thicknesses and effective diameters, we obtain a sensor measurement range from 5 to 10,000 psi (1 psi = 51.72 Torr) and a frequency response up to 2 MHz. In addition, the sensor's F-P cavity can be set from micrometers to millimeters with a precision of several nanometers. With the all-silica structure, the sensor is reliable, biocompatible, and immune to electromagnetic interference and has high-temperature sensing capability.
authors.affiliation: Center for Photonics Technology, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA. juxu1@vt.edu
authors.forename: Juncheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xingwei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kristie L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Anbo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wang