U-shape panda polarization-maintaining microfiber sensor coated with graphene oxide for relative humidity measurement

Chen, Ling, Liu, Bin, Liu, Juan, Yuan, Jinhui, Chan, Hau Ping, Wu, Tao, Wang, Meng-Yu, Wan, Sheng-Peng, He, Xing-Dao and Wu, Qiang (2021) U-shape panda polarization-maintaining microfiber sensor coated with graphene oxide for relative humidity measurement. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39 (19). pp. 6308-6314. ISSN 0733-8724

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2021.3096505

Abstract

A new U-shape panda polarization-maintaining fiber (PPMF) based microfiber interferometer coated with graphene oxide (GO) film was proposed and experimentally demonstrated for relative humidity (RH) sensing. Experimental results show that the U-shape sensor has refractive index (RI) sensitivity of 1692.5nm/RIU in the RI range of 1.33 when the diameter of the taper waist is 10.08 µm. The surface of the U-shape sensor was then modified chemically and coated with a thin layer of GO film (59.64nm) for RH detection and the sensitivity is proportional to RH: as RH increases from 30% to 98%, the sensitivity increases from 0.111 to 0.361 nm/%RH and the response time is 0.28 s. In addition, the cross sensitivity to temperature, stability, reproducibility, and response/recovery time of the RH sensor were studied in detail. The proposed U-shape fiber RH sensor has advantage of high sensitivity, good reproducibility and fast response (0.28 s), which has potential application in areas requiring dynamic measurement of RH variations such as industrial product fabrication process control and breath state monitoring.

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Additional Information: This work was supported by the Nanchang Hangkong University graduate student innovation special fund project (YC2019049), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (20192ACB20031, 20192ACBL21051 and 20202ACBL202002); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62065013, 11864025, 61865013); Key R&D Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2018YFE0115700); Royal Society International Exchanges 2020 Cost Share (NSFC) (IEC\NSFC\201015)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Relative humidity, microfiber interferometer, U-shape fiber, graphene oxide
Subjects: F200 Materials Science
H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 06 Jul 2021 09:11
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2021 14:15
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46614

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