Simulation of a Temperature-Compensated Voltage Sensor Based on Photonic Crystal Fiber Infiltrated with Liquid Crystal and Ethanol

Wang, Wei-Lin, Liu, Qiang, Liu, Zhao-Yang, Wu, Qiang and Fu, Yong Qing (2022) Simulation of a Temperature-Compensated Voltage Sensor Based on Photonic Crystal Fiber Infiltrated with Liquid Crystal and Ethanol. Sensors, 22 (17). p. 6374. ISSN 1424-8220

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22176374

Abstract

A simulated design for a temperature-compensated voltage sensor based on photonic crystal fiber (PCF) infiltrated with liquid crystal and ethanol is presented in this paper. The holes distributed across the transverse section of the PCF provide two channels for mode coupling between the liquid crystal or ethanol and the fiber core. The couplings are both calculated accurately and explored theoretically using the finite element method (FEM). The influence of voltage on the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules and confinement loss of the fiber mode are studied. Liquid crystal molecules rotate which changes its properties as the voltage changes. As the characteristics of the liquid crystal will be affected by temperature, therefore, we further fill using ethanol, which is merely sensitive to temperature, into one hole of the PCF to realize temperature compensation. The simulated results show that the sensitivity is up to 1.29977 nm/V with the temperature of 25 °C when the voltage ranges from 365 to 565 V. The standard deviation of the wavelength difference is less than 2 nm within the temperature adjustment from 25 to 50 °C for temperature compensation. The impacts of the construction parameters of the PCF on sensing performances of this voltage sensor are also analyzed in this paper.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Funding information: This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51907017), the Key Science and Technology Research Projects of Higher Education Institutions in Hebei Province of China (Grant No. ZD2019304), Hebei Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. F2020501040), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant No. N2123012).
Uncontrolled Keywords: photonic crystal fiber, voltage sensor, liquid crystal, mode coupling, finite element method, temperature compensation
Subjects: F200 Materials Science
F300 Physics
H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 25 Aug 2022 07:55
Last Modified: 25 Aug 2022 08:01
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49955

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