All-fiber self-mixing interferometer for displacement measurement based on the quadrature demodulation technique

The quadrature demodulation algorithm used for all-fiber self-mixing sensors is applied to displacement measurements. A fiber electro-optic modulator is used to introduce phase modulation, which can improve the accuracy of measurements. Although phase modulation is easily affected by the polarization state of light, this method can process signals by sampling the interference signals at specific time points. Such signals are insensitive to polarization, and thus, the calculation process and experimental devices are simplified. The feasibility of the algorithm is validated via a series of experiments under nonpolarization-maintaining conditions.