Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
High-birefringence microfiber Sagnac interferometer based humidity sensor. |
| Authors: |
Sun, Li-Peng1, Li, Jie1, Jin, Long1, Ran, Yang1, Guan, Bai-Ou1 tguanbo@jnu.edu.cn |
| Source: |
Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical. Aug2016, Vol. 231, p696-700. 5p. |
| Subjects: |
Birefringence, Microfibers, Interferometers, Surface coatings, Polarization (Electrochemistry) |
| Abstract: |
A relative humidity (RH) sensor based on a microfiber Sagnac loop interferometer is proposed and demonstrated. The sensor is formed by fusion splicing a high-birefringence elliptical microfiber into a fiber loop mirror without any humidity sensitive coating to the structure. Interferometric fringe with visibility of around 30 dB can be achieved in the transmission spectrum due to phase difference between the two polarization modes travelling through the microfiber region. The proposed structure presents high sensitivity up to ∼201.25 pm/%RH, within an RH range from 30%RH to 90%RH. Moreover, we realize the sensitivity enhancement (up to ∼422.2 pm/%RH) by inserting a reference Panda fiber into the fiber loop. The sensitivity is two to five times of magnitude higher than the counterparts in the literature. The measured response time is around 60 ms, which is much better than the previously-reported devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
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