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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82193-5
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain [TEC2016-76021-C2-1-R, TEC2016-76021-C2-2-R]
- FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades and Agencia Estatal de Investigacion [PID2019-107270RB-C21, PID2019-107270RB-C22]
- Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte of Spain [FPU2018/02797]
- Projects for young researches UPNA 2019
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A novel optical fiber sensor capable of measuring liquid level and refractive index has been designed, manufactured and demonstrated in this work. By processing a silica capillary hollow-core fiber with a femtosecond laser, the system can achieve a high resolution of 4 mu m for liquid level measurement. In the future, it has the potential to measure the level of immiscible liquids as well.
In this work, a novel optical fiber sensor capable of measuring both the liquid level and its refractive index is designed, manufactured and demonstrated through simulations and experimentally. For this, a silica capillary hollow-core fiber is used. The fiber, with a sensing length of 1.55 mm, has been processed with a femtosecond laser, so that it incorporates four holes in its structure. In this way, the liquid enters the air core, and it is possible to perform the sensing through the Fabry-Perot cavities that the liquid generates. The detection mode is in reflection. With a resolution of 4 mu m (liquid level), it is in the state of the art of this type of sensor. The system is designed so that in the future it will be capable of measuring the level of immiscible liquids, that is, liquids that form stratified layers. It can be useful to determine the presence of impurities in tanks.
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