Trench-embedding fiber taper sensor fabricated by a femtosecond laser for gas refractive index sensing

Zhitao Cao; Lan Jiang; Sumei Wang; Peng Wang; Fei Zhang; Yongfeng Lu

doi:10.1364/AO.53.001028

Trench-embedding fiber taper sensor fabricated by a femtosecond laser for gas refractive index sensing

Zhitao Cao, Lan Jiang, Sumei Wang^*, Peng Wang, Fei Zhang, Yongfeng Lu

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A fiber in-line, multimode coupling interferometer with a trench-embedding, fiber taper probe is proposed and fabricated by femtosecond-laser-induced water breakdown. The reflection-type taper probe is used for gas refractive index (RI) detection from 1.0001143 to 1.0002187 and temperature sensing from 50°C to 500°C. The largest RI sensitivity of the taper probe embedded with a trench at a width of 18.4 μm is 669.502 nm/RIU for hybrid nitrogen and helium. Temperature sensitivity is 9.97 pm/°C and it shows good linearity through the whole testing range. The new-type multimode interferometer is appropriate for high-accuracy gas RI detection of micrometer-scale spaces and wide-range temperature compensation can be realized.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1028-1032
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Optics
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.53.001028
Publication status	Published - 20 Feb 2014

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