A temperature fiber sensor with nanostructured cladding composed ted by titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles was demonstrated. The nanoparticles self-assembled onto a side polished optical fiber (SPF). The enhancement of interaction between the propagating light and the TiO2 nanoparticles (TN) can be obtained via strong evanescent field of the SPF. The strong light–TN interaction gives rise to temperature sensing with a optical power variation of ~4dB in SPF experimentally for an environment temperature ranging from -7.8°C to 77.6°C. The novel temperature sensor shows a sensitivity of ~0.044 dB/°C. The TN-based fiber-optic temperature sensor is facile to manufactured, compatible with fiber-optic interconnections and high potential in photonics applications.
A novel all fiber-optic power sensor of violet laser based on methyl blue-functionalized reduced graphene oxide (MB-rGO) film coated on a microfiber (MF) was proposed. The experiments show that when the violet laser illuminating onto the MB-rGO film with power variation from 0.03mw to 12.8mw, the transmitted optical power of the MF changes with a relative variation of ~2.7dB. The novel power sensor of violet laser possesses a sensitivity of ~0.22dB/mw in 1550nm. Furthermore, the MB-rGO-based all fiber-optic violet power sensor is easy to fabricate, compatible with fiberoptic systems and possesses high potentiality in photonics applications such as all fiber-optic broadband sensors, switches and modulators.
A novel all fiber-optic temperature sensor based on graphene film coated on a side polished fiber (SPF) was
demonstrated. Significantly enhanced interaction between the propagating light and the graphene film can be achieved
via strong evanescent light of the SPF. The experiments shows that the strong interaction results in temperature sensing
with a dynamic optical power variation of 11.3dB in SPF. The novel temperature fiber sensor possesses a linear
correlation coefficient of 99.4%, a sensitivity of 0.13dB/°C, a precision of better than 0.03°C. Furthermore, the
graphene-based all fiber-optic temperature sensor is easy to fabricate, compatible with fiber-optic systems and possesses
high potentiality in photonics applications such as all fiber-optic temperature sensing network.
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