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Published on: January 7, 2019
Multiplexed high temperature sensing with sapphire fiber air gap-based extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometers
Jiajun Wang1, Bo Dong, Evan Lally
1Center for Photonics Technology, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0287, USA. wangjj@vt.edu
Abstract:
In this Letter we present a high temperature multipoint sensing method using sapphire fiber air gap-based extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometers. Three sensors are fabricated and tested in a single sensing link. Experimental results show that the air gap-based high temperature sensors have a very high temperature sensitivity (>20 nm/ degrees C) and resolution (<0.3 degrees C) and are capable of operating at temperatures well above 1000 degrees C. The multiplexed sapphire sensors present a significant advancement over traditional single-point sensors for critical high temperature applications.
