Jin L, Wang C, Jin L, Chen W, Xu H, Cui M, Li M. Micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems accelerometer based on the Talbot effect of double-layer diffraction gratings.
APPLIED OPTICS 2022;
61:5386-5391. [PMID:
36256105 DOI:
10.1364/ao.457479]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
In this paper, we present the design, fabrication, and test of a micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) accelerometer based on the Talbot effect of double-layer diffraction gratings. The detection of acceleration is realized by using the highly sensitive displacement characteristic of Talbot imaging of near-field diffraction with double-layer gratings. For the purpose of obtaining optimal contrast of the optical interferometric detection, the parameters of the gratings are optimized by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation. The experimental results indicate that this MOEMS accelerometer with the proposed design can achieve a resolution of 246 µg, sensitivity of 6.1 V/g, and bias stability of 0.02 mg. The proposed accelerometer can be operated at higher accelerations (∼80g), which shows significant potential for being used in applications that require detection of strong and fast vibrations, especially in vibration sensing of vehicles and geophysical seismic sensing in real time.
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