High temperature fiber sensor using the interference effect within a suspended core microstructured optical fiber
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2016
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Nguyen, L.
Warren-Smith, S.
Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H.
Monro, T.
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Berghmans, F.
Mignani, A.
Mignani, A.
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Proceedings of SPIE, 2016 / Berghmans, F., Mignani, A. (ed./s), vol.9899, iss.98991H
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Conference on Optical Sensing and Detection IV (3 Apr 2016 - 7 Apr 2016 : Brussels, BELGIUM)
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We report a high temperature fiber sensor based on the multimode interference effect within a suspended core microstructured optical fiber (SCF). By splicing a short section of SCF with a lead-in single-mode fiber (SMF), the sensor head was formed. A complex interference pattern was obtained in the reflection spectrum as the result of the multiple excited modes in the SCF. The complexity of the interference indicates that there are more than two dominantly excited modes in the SCF, as resolved by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis of the interference. The proposed sensor was subjected to temperature variation from 20°C to 1100°C. The fringe of the filtered spectrum red-shifted linearly with respect to temperature varying between 20°C and 1100°C, with similar temperature sensitivity for increasing and decreasing temperature. Phase monitoring was used for an extended temperature experiment (80 hours) in which the sensor was subjected to several different temperature variation conditions namely (i) step-wise increase/decrease with 100°C steps between 20°C and 1100°C, (ii) dwelling overnight at 400°C, (iii) free fall from 1100°C to 132°C, and (iv) continuous increase of temperature from 132°C to 1100°C. Our approach serves as a simple and cost-effective alternative to the better-known high temperature fiber sensors such as the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) in sapphire fibers or regenerated FBG in photosensitive optical fibers.
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