A Probe-Shaped Sensor With FBG and Fiber-Tip Bubble for Pressure and Temperature Sensing

Abstract

A probe-shaped sensor for simultaneous temperature and pressure measurement was reported in this article. The effective length of the sensor was ∼2mm, consisting of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and a Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) with a nano silica diaphragm. The response sensitivities of the sensor for pressure and temperature were measured as −0.98 nm/MPa and 11.10 pm/°C, respectively. This sensor had an extremely low cross-sensitivity between pressure and temperature, which provided a significant potential in dual-parameter sensing.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometer / fiber Bragg grating / fiber optics sensors

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