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Sensors 2011, 11, 54-61; doi:10.3390/s110100054 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A High-Quality Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Fiber Sensor by Femtosecond Laser One-Step Processing Longjiang Zhao 1, Lan Jiang 1,*, Sumei Wang 1, Hai Xiao 2, Yongfeng Lu 3 and Hai-Lung Tsai 4 1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081, China; E-Mails: zhaolongjiang@ (L.Z.); wangsumei@ (S.W.) 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA; E-Mail: xiaoha@ (H.X.) 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA; E-Mail: ylu2@ (Y.L.) 4 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA; E-Mail: tsai@ (H.-L.T.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: jianglan@; Tel.: +86-010 Fax: +86-010 Received: 14 October 2010; in revised form: 15 November 2010 / Accepted: 16 December 2010 / Published: 23 December 2010 Abstract: During new fiber sensor development experiments, an easy-to-fabricate simple sensing structure with a trench and partially ablated fiber core is fabricated by using an 800 nm 35 fs 1 kHz laser. It is demonstrated that the structure forms a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with the interference between the laser light passing through the air in the trench cavity and that in the remained fiber core. The fringe visibilities are all more