A miniaturized tip Fabry-Perot interferometer (tip-FPI) is proposed for high-temperature sensing. It is simply fabricated for the first time by splicing a short length of microfiber (MF) to the cleaved end of a standard single mode fiber (SMF) with precise control of the relative cross section position. Such a MF acts as a Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity and serves as a tip sensor. A change in temperature modifies the length and refractive index of the FP cavity, and then a corresponding change in the reflected interference spectrum can be observed. High temperatures of up to 1000 °C are measured in the experiments, and a high sensitivity of 13.6 pm/°C is achieved. This compact sensor, with tip diameter and length both of tens of microns, is suitable for localized detection, especially in harsh environments.
We report a high power all-fiber amplifier with suitable seed power injected by an all-fiber laser. Different seed powers were injected into the all-fiber amplifier during our amplification experiments, and we found the stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) threshold was inversely proportional to the injected seed power. More than 3 kW signal light with good beam quality (M2 = 1.28) has been obtained with a suitable seed power injected, and the slope efficiency of the all-fiber amplifier was about 84.4%.
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