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Fiber Optic Distributed Sensors for High-resolution Temperature Field Mapping
Published on: November 7, 2016
Optical Fiber Sensor for Temperature and Strain Measurement Based on Multimode Interference and Square-Core Fiber
Kun Wang1, Xingchen Dong1, Patrick Kienle1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Measurement Systems and Sensor Technology, Technical University of Munich, Theresienstraße 90, 80333 Munich, Germany.
Abstract:
A variety of specialty fibers such as no-core fiber (NCF) have already been studied to reveal their sensing abilities. In this work, we investigate a specialty fiber, square-core fiber, for temperature and strain sensing. A simple single-mode-multimode-single-mode (SMS) fiber sensor was fabricated, consisting of a 30-cm-long square-core fiber. The experimental results indicate that the maximal wavelength-temperature and wavelength-strain sensitivities are -15.3 pm/∘C and -1.5 pm/με, respectively, while the maximal power-temperature and power-strain sensitivities are 0.0896 dBm/∘C and 0.0756 dBm/με. Analysis of the results suggests that the fiber sensor has the potential to be used as a high-sensitivity temperature sensor with a low strain sensitivity.
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