Miniaturized fiber taper reflective interferometer for high temperature measurement
- 17 June 2010
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 18 (13), 14245-14250
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.18.014245
Abstract
We present an ultra-small all-silica high temperature sensor based on a reflective Fabry-Perot modal interferometer (FPMI). Our FPMI is made of a micro-cavity (~4.4 μm) directly fabricated into a fiber taper probe less than 10 μm in diameter. Its sensing head is a miniaturized single mode-multimode fiber configuration without splicing. The sensing mechanism of FPMI is the interference among reflected fundamental mode and excited high-order modes at the end-faces. Its temperature sensitivity is ~20 pm/°C near the wavelength of 1550 nm. This kind of sensor can work in harsh environments with ultra-large temperature gradient, but takes up little space because of its unique geometry and small size.Keywords
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