Optical fiber sensitive element metallization packaging structure and method thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to an optical fiber sensitive element, in particular to a metalized packaging structure of an optical fiber grating and a packaging method thereof.
Background
The fiber grating is a fiber sensing element, and is often applied to the fields of fiber sensing and fiber communication. Due to the sensitivity and fragility of the element, the packaging technology of the element becomes a key technology in engineering application. The packaging technology commonly used at present is as follows: and packaging the manufactured fiber grating by a secondary coating machine and then packaging the fiber grating on a metal tube or a metal sheet by using special resin adhesive.
The existing packaging technology has the following defects: firstly, the resin adhesive belongs to organic matters, is easy to age and decompose and is not beneficial to long-term use in severe environment; secondly, when the fiber grating is applied to the sensing field, the outer cladding of the optical fiber and the resin colloid generate redundancy in measurement, and the linearity and the repeatability of the measurement are affected.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a colloidization-free packaging structure and a packaging method, and the optical fiber sensitive element metalized packaging structure is completed by using a metal coating and welding method. The sensor with the structure of the invention has good linearity and repeatability.
The invention relates to a metalized packaging structure of an optical fiber sensitive element, which mainly comprises the optical fiber sensitive element (1) and a metal tube or a metal sheet (2), and is characterized in that the surface of the optical fiber sensitive element is provided with a metal coating (5), and a metal welding spot (3) is used for welding the optical fiber sensitive element (1) and the metal tube or the metal sheet (2) together.
The invention relates to a metallization packaging method of an optical fiber sensitive element, which is characterized by comprising the following steps:
removing the outer cladding layer (6) of the hydrogen-carrying optical fiber, and writing the grating (1) with a specific wavelength in the position of the bare optical fiber (4) by using an excimer laser; after surface cleaning and activating treatment are carried out on the fiber bragg grating, firstly plating nickel metal and then plating gold metal; the fiber grating is penetrated into the metal tube and fixed on the operation table respectively, or the fiber grating is directly fixed on the metal sheet; prestress is applied to the fiber bragg grating, and then the fiber bragg grating (1) and the metal pipe or the metal sheet (3) are heated and welded.
The metalized packaging structure of the optical fiber sensitive element is characterized in that the optical fiber sensitive element (1) is an optical fiber grating, the metal coating (5) is provided with two layers, the inner layer is nickel, the outer layer is gold, and the metal welding spots (3) are positioned on two sides of the optical fiber sensitive element.
The invention adopts the full-metallization packaging technology, avoids the problems of aging and redundancy caused by using resin glue, and ensures that the optical fiber sensitive element has good linear characteristic and repeatability as a sensor.
Drawings
FIG. 1 shows the structure of the metallized package of the optical fiber sensor
FIG.2 is a flow chart of a method for metalizing and packaging an optical fiber sensing element
Detailed Description
As shown in figure 1, the invention relates to a metalized packaging structure of an optical fiber sensitive element, which mainly comprises the optical fiber sensitive element (1) and a metal tube or a metal sheet (2), and is characterized in that the surface of the optical fiber sensitive element is provided with a metal coating (5) and a metal welding spot (3) is used for welding the optical fiber sensitive element (1) and the metal tube or the metal sheet (2) together.
The implementation steps are shown in figure 2 as follows: the outer cladding (6) of the hydrogen-carrying fiber is removed and a grating (1) of a specific wavelength is written at the position of the bare fiber (4) by an excimer laser.
Oil removal: wiping the surface of the optical fiber with alcohol cotton ball several times, and then wiping the surface with less than 100gL-1Soaking in NaOH solution for 10min, taking out, and washing with deionized water.
Coarsening: with a composition containing F-Or H2SiF6The strong acid solution weakly corrodes the surface of the optical fiber to obtainAnd coarsening to a certain degree. The roughening solution is HF and H2SiF6∶H2O is 1: 2 (volume ratio), the coarsening time is preferably 10min, and the deionized water is taken out for washing.
And (3) heat treatment: the coarsened water film on the surface of the optical fiber seriously hinders the adsorption of active catalytic particles on the surface of the optical fiber, so the optical fiber needs to be subjected to heat treatment before sensitization, and the heat treatment system is as follows: keeping the temperature at 120 ℃ for 10 min.
Sensitization: immersing the heat-treated optical fiber in a sensitizing solution for sensitizing the surface of the optical fiber to adsorb a layer of easily-oxidizable substance (such as SnCl)2) By means of which the electrodes can be connectedMetal ions with high potential (e.g. Pd)2+) Reducing to metal atoms. 5g of SnCl2Dissolving in 5ml concentrated hydrochloric acid, and diluting to specified volume to avoid SnCl2A colloidal precipitate formed in the aqueous solution.
And (3) activation: soaking the sensitized optical fiber in PdCl2In the solution for a certain time to make the bivalent Sn adsorbed on the surface of the optical fiber2+And activating solution PdCl2Divalent Pd in (1)2+Reacting to form a noble metal crystal nucleus Pd with catalytic activity required by electroless nickel plating, wherein the reaction formula is as follows:
active Pd atoms generated by the reaction are adsorbed on the surface of the quartz optical fiber and become a catalytic center of the chemical nickel plating reaction, so that the chemical nickel plating is smoothly carried out.
And (3) heat treatment: in order to improve the bonding force between the active Pd atoms and the surface of the optical fiber, the optical fiber after activation treatment should be heat-treated at 120 ℃ for 10 min.
Firstly plating nickel metal on the gold-plated metal; respectively preparing mixed solution of nickel sulfate, sodium hypophosphite, lactic acid, sodium carbonate, ammonium chloride and saccharin, heating to a certain temperature, immersing the quartz optical fiber after treatment,and taking out after a certain time.
The fiber grating is penetrated into the metal tube and fixed on the operation table respectively, or the fiber grating is directly fixed on the metal sheet; prestress is applied to the fiber grating, and then the fiber grating (1) and the metal tube or the metal sheet (3) are heated and welded.