Novel pressure sensor by diode-pumped birefringent Nd:YAG dual-frequency laser

Chunning Huang; Yan Li; Shulian Zhang; Hui Guo

doi:10.1117/12.470956

20 September 2002 Novel pressure sensor by diode-pumped birefringent Nd:YAG dual-frequency laser

Chunning Huang, Yan Li, Shulian Zhang, Hui Guo

Proceedings Volume 4919, Advanced Materials and Devices for Sensing and Imaging; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.470956
Event: Photonics Asia, 2002, Shanghai, China

Abstract

The prototype of a novel sensor based on laser frequency splitting technology is presented in this paper and the results of a series of experiments are reported. A scheme of the novel pressure sensor by diode-pumped birefringent Nd:YAG dual-frequency laser is brought forward. As a result of the stress birefringence the laser's longitudinal mode is split to two with frequency difference. Both the theoretical analysis and the experiments indicate that there is a direct ratio relation between the frequency difference and the pressure imposed on the Nd:YAG crystal. Therefore when the external pressure is sensed by the Nd:YAG dual-frequency laser and the beat frequency is measured by the frequency counter, the pressure value can be obtained from the magnitude of the beat frequency. The laser can operate under single mode or complex modes with little error to the experiment results. Some research work under different pumping ways is finished and it indicates that the beat frequency has little relation with pumping ways. The experiment has a good linearity (R greater than 0.999) with satisfied precision, sensitivity (5.27 MHz/kPa) and stability, which provides a good academic and experimental foundation for further research.

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Chunning Huang, Yan Li, Shulian Zhang, and Hui Guo "Novel pressure sensor by diode-pumped birefringent Nd:YAG dual-frequency laser", Proc. SPIE 4919, Advanced Materials and Devices for Sensing and Imaging, (20 September 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.470956

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