Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue s1, S10404(2013)
Optical coatings on f iber for relative-humidity sensing applications
A fiber-optic relative-humidity (RH) sensor composed of multilayer of porous dielectric films is proposed. The transducer deposited on fiber end-face is multilayer coating consisting of nano-porous TiO2 and SiO2 films, which forms a low-fineness Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter with one of minimum reflections at about 1 350-nm wavelength. The dielectric thin films realized by e-beam evaporation without ion-source assistance have columnar and porous structures, which exhibit sensitivity to RH change of environments. When the sensor is exposed to an environment of RH change from 10.9% to 92.8%, experimental results demonstrate 77.9-nm shift of characteristic wavelength.
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Yun Cheng, Weijing Xie, Xun Yu, Hong Lu, Minghong Yang, "Optical coatings on f iber for relative-humidity sensing applications," Chin. Opt. Lett. 11, S10404 (2013)
Category: Applications
Received: Jan. 4, 2013
Accepted: Feb. 26, 2013
Published Online: Jun. 14, 2013
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