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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 9406-9415Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.009406
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- Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [61290311]
- Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project in Hubei Province [2015AAA001]
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A high-performance temperature sensor based on mode-coupling principle is proposed using a selectively filled, solid-core photonic crystal fiber with a central air-bore. The fibers are fabricated using the stack-and-draw method, with a micro scale central bore deliberately kept during the drawing procedure. The addition of the central air-bore enhances the mode-coupling efficiency between the fundamental core mode and modes in the high-index liquid-filled holes in the fiber cladding, therefore, the fiber can be used for a novel sensing architecture, when cladding holes are selectively filled with temperature sensitive liquids. Based on this concept, numerical analyses are accomplished using finite element method, showing that this fiber-based temperature sensor possesses high sensitivity of -6.02 nm/degrees C, with a resolution of 3.32 x 10(-3)degrees C, in the temperature range from -80 to 90 degrees C. The selective hole-filling is verified by a multi-step infiltration technique. A particularly designed probe with improved sensitivity and manipulation is also proposed for this system. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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