Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 176, Issue -, Pages 264-274Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.09.098
Keywords
Fiber-optic sensors; Fiber Bragg grating gratings; Long-period gratings; Photonic crystal fiber; Nanostructure material and film
Funding
- US National Science Foundation [OISE-0730259]
- US Department of Transportation through the Infrastructure Technology Institute at Northwestern University
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A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) long-period grating (LPG) humidity sensor has been developed with high sensitivity and selectivity for nondestructive detection of moisture ingression into structures that can potentially lead to corrosion. We have proposed two types of nanofilms to be coated on the surface of air channels in the grating region by electrostatic self-assembly deposition processing. The primary nanofilm does not affect LPG properties such as resonance wavelength or transmission intensity which can impact sensing characteristics; however it increases the sensitivity by changing the refractive index of the surrounding material. The secondary nanofilm is used for selectively adsorbing analyte molecules of interest. The experimental results reveal that, compared to the conventional fiber LPGs and exterior nanofilm-coated PCF-LPG, the interior nanofilm-coated PCF-LPG humidity sensors have both the most sensitive resonance intensity change of 0.00022%/10(-3) dBm from relative humidity (RH) of 38% to 39% and average wavelength shift of 0.0007%/pm for a relative humidity variation from 22% to 29%. The proposed sensor shows excellent thermal stability as well. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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