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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 26, Issue 9, Pages 12277-12290Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.012277
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- National Key R & D Program of China [2017YFC1405600]
- Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China [ZR2017MD030]
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An all-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) for two quasi-continuous points' temperature sensing in seawater is proposed. Based on the beam propagation theory, transmission spectrum is designed to present two sets of clear and independent interferences. Following this design, MZI is fabricated and two points' temperature sensing in seawater are demonstrated with sensitivities of 42.69pm/degrees C and 39.17pm/degrees C, respectively. By further optimization, sensitivity of 80.91pm/degrees C can be obtained, which is 3-10 times higher than fiber Bragg gratings and microfiber resonator, and higher than almost all similar MZI based temperature sensors. In addition, factors affecting sensitivities are also discussed and verified in experiment. The two points' temperature sensing demonstrated here show advantages of simple and compact construction, robust structure, easy fabrication, high sensitivity, immunity to salinity and tunable distance of 1-20 centimeters between two points, which may provide references for macroscopic oceanic research and other sensing applications based on MZIs. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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