Abstract
A dual fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (FFPI) sensor system with a low-coherence communication-system light-emitting diode (LED) as a light source is investigated to detect temperature variation signals. In this system, there are two FFPIs: the sensing and reference FFPIs. When the perturbation of interest, such as that of temperature, disturbs the sensing FFPI to produce a phase shift, the light reflected from the sensor is demodulated by the reference FFPI to extract the measurand. A low-power (sub-nW) optical signal is converted into an electrical signal and processed by a designed optical receiver. This setup is availably applied in biosensors to compensate the temperature variation in a sensing environment or sense the temperature effect in a certain measurement on an interior local site. © 2008 The Japan Society of Applied Physics.