Open AccessSimultaneous Measurement of Temperature and Strain Using Spheroidal-Cavity-Overlapped FBG
Author(s) -
Yuheng Pan,
Tiegen Liu,
Junfeng Jiang,
Kun Liu,
Shuang Wang,
Jinde Yin,
Pan He,
Jinling Yan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2015.2493724
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
We demonstrated a fiber-optic sensor using spheroidal-cavity-overlapped fiber Bragg grating (FBG) for simultaneous temperature and strain sensing. The spheroidal cavity is fabricated through splicing two sections of the photon-sensitive fiber together and located in the center of the FBG to act as a Fabry-Pérot interferometer (FPI). Experimental results demonstrate that the temperature sensitivity of the FPI part of the sensor is 0.67 pm/°C at the range of -70 °C-20 °C, and its strain sensitivity is 3.76 pm/με at the range of 0-500 με, while those of the FBG part are 8.40 pm/°C and 1.40 pm/με, respectively. The sensitivity difference ensures good simultaneous measurement performance.