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  • Master Thesis
    Fiber Optic Current Sensor Interrogated by Phase-Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Yüksel Aldoğan, Kıvılcım; Yüksel Aldoğan, Kıvılcım; 03.05. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    In this thesis, a novel method for current sensing using an FBG-assisted Phase-Sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectomter (Phase-OTDR) with Mach-Zehnder Inter-ferometer is proposed. The detrimental effect of the intrinsic linear birefringence of the sensing fiber is solved by calibration. An FBG pair is written at the two ends of the spun fiber coil to eliminate phase fading and increase the measurement accuracy. A simulation tool was developed to study the feasibility of the approach and the sensor performance by a well-established Phase-OTDR model with the Jones formalism. The effects of bending-and FBG-induced linear birefringence are investigated as well as the impact of the detector noise.
  • Master Thesis
    Polarization and Phase Characterization of Side-Polished Optical Fibers
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Karataş, Yunus Emre; Dinleyici, Mehmet Salih; Dinleyici, Mehmet Salih; 03.05. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    In this thesis, the polarization and phase properties of the side-polished optical fiber (SPOF) are aimed to characterize. The Linearly Polarized (LP) modes of standard optical fibers have been affected by the side-polished geometry which breaking symmetry. At the side-polished area guided modes couple to non-symmetric modes and phase shift occurs due to the birefringent property of the SPOF. That kind of structure has an excellent usage potential as a portable optical sensor or optical fiber communication device. It was primarily concentrated on the LP modes of the standard optical fiber. LP mode field solutions extracted from Maxwell Equations were calculated with MATLAB, and mode intensity distributions were constructed accordingly. The calculated intensity distributions were utilized for figuring out the mode content of the outputs of the twomode experiment. The recorded CCD Camera images were matched with the calculated intensity distributions, and then the best-matched LP mode combination was selected as output mode content. In the single-mode experiment at the side-polished area, quasi-degenerate fundamental modes occur. According to the state of polarization of the modes, they suffer attenuation and phase shift in different levels. Therefore, after the side-polished area, degenerate fundamental modes propagate together with a particular phase difference. This situation composes elliptical polarization at the output. Various modal polarization rotation and phase shifts were observed, and then polarization ellipses were obtained with MATLAB. The resultant ellipses demonstrate that the effect of SPOF on guided modes varies with the angle of input polarization.
  • Master Thesis
    Analysis and Implementation of Long Period Fiber Grating and Fresnel Reflection-Based Sensors for Refractive Index Measurement of Liquids
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) İde, Cansu; Yüksel Aldoğan, Kıvılcım; Yüksel Aldoğan, Kıvılcım; 03.05. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Refractive index (RI) is one of the physical properties of material, such as boiling/ melting point, density, and elasticity. As one of the distinctive features of the material, measurement of the RI is nowadays used in many areas including the food, oil and petro-leum industry, biomedical applications, and environmental analysis. In recent years, fiber optic based refractometers become highly popular thanks to the advantages they provide compared to other methods used in the above-mentioned fields. In this context, two intrinsic fiber optic refractive index sensors were investigated in this thesis: long-period fiber grating (LPFG) based- and Fresnel reflection based- re-fractometers. The former examines the changes in the resonant wavelength interrogated by an Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA) whereas the latter uses SMF tip as sensing point interrogated by an Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) from a distant location. In the framework of the thesis, we first of all, provided a detailed field-specific literature survey giving an overview of the fiber optic-based refractive index sensors. Then, the operation principles of LPFG were studied including the modelling aspects of this sensing element. For this purpose, transmission spectra of LPFGs to external refrac-tive index changes have been simulated employing the two-layer fiber geometry. Next, the principles of Fresnel reflection-based sensor were investigated. Finally, experimental work was realized on different concentrations of glucose-water, glycerol-water solutions, and various chemicals. Our experimental results show an excellent agreement with the theory which demonstrated the capability of measuring RI of liquids for both methods investigated in the scope of thesis.