We present a laser machining method for fabricating an all-fiber pillar-in-bubble Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI), which is used for strain sensors with high sensitivity. The micro-structure of the air-bubble is fully controllable, especially the cavity length and sidewall thickness. The measured sensitivity of this strain sensor is as high as 56.69 pm/με, which is several times higher than that of most FPI strain sensors reported to date. This sensor also has a low-temperature sensitivity of 0.682 pm/°C, reducing the cross-sensitivity between tensile strain and temperature to 0.012 με/°C. Furthermore, such a sensor has the benefits of flexible design, simple fabrication, and high reproducibility, making it attractive for practical applications.
We demonstrate a fiber Fabry–Pérot cavity in the ultraviolet range, which covers the florescence wavelength for the 2P1/2 to 2S1/2 transition of Yb+ and is designed in the bad cavity limit for florescence collection. Benefiting from both the small cavity mode volume and the large atom dipole, a cavity with moderate finesse and high transmission still supports a good cooperativity, which is made and tested in experiment. Based on the measured experimental parameters, simulation performed on the cavity and ion shows a Purcell factor better than 2.5 and a single-mode fiber collection efficiency over 10%. This technology can support ultra-bright single photon sources based on trapped ions and can provide the possibility to link remote atoms as a quantum network.
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