Nanocomposite polyacrylamide based open cavity fiber Fabry-Perot humidity sensor

作者:Yao Jun; Zhu Tao*; Duan De Wen; Deng Ming
来源:Applied Optics, 2012, 51(31): 7643-7647.
DOI:10.1364/AO.51.007643

摘要

A humidity sensor with a low temperature sensitivity is proposed and demonstrated by coating a nanocomposite hygrometer polyacrylamide in an open interferometric cavity of a fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer. In this paper the Fabry-Perot structure is formed by splicing one short section of single mode fiber between two sections of single mode fiber with a larger offset fusing method. Experimental results show that relative humidity (RH) sensitivity of the sensor is similar to 0.1 nm/(1% RH) in the range of 38% to 78% RH and similar to 5.868 nm/(1% RH) in the range of 88% to 98% RH, respectively.