Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín

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Ascorbe Muruzabal

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Joaquín

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Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica

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  • PublicationOpen Access
    Optical fiber vacuum sensor based on etched SMS structure and PDMS coating
    (IEEE, 2020) Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín; Fuentes Lorenzo, Omar; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Matías Maestro, Ignacio; Corres Sanz, Jesús María; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación
    In this work, an optical fiber vacuum sensor based on a single-mode multimode single-mode (SMS) structure coated with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is studied. The SMS structure generates an interferometric pattern based on multimode interference. The structure is dip-coated with a layer of PDMS, whose optical properties change when it is subjected to varying vacuum pressure. Different strategies are applied in an attempt to improve the final performance of the sensor, such as decreasing the diameter of the fiber and modifying the properties of the coating by modifying the proportion of solvent. Decreasing the diameter of the optical fiber and using toluene as a solvent are both proved to be successful strategies for increasing the sensitivity of the sensor. The devices are studied in the 1×10-3–10 mbar range with a maximum wavelength shift of 12 nm, leading to a maximum sensitivity of 35 nm/mbar. The simplicity of the fabrication process, which can be applied to more sensitive structures, suggests that PDMS may be a good choice for the development of optical fiber vacuum sensors.
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    Dual-cavity fiber fabry-perot interferometer coated with SnO2for relative humidity and temperature sensing
    (IEEE, 2020) Domínguez Flores, Carmen E.; Rodríguez-Quiroz, Osvaldo; Monzón-Hernández, David; Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín; Corres Sanz, Jesús María; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación
    An optical fiber tip interferometer for the measurement of relative humidity (RH) and temperature is proposed. The optical fiber structure used, a dual-cavity optical fiber Fabry-Perot interferometer (DFFPI), is simply-to-fabricate, compact, and robust. The reflectance (RDFFPI) of the interferometer is sensitive to the refractive index (RI) and temperature of the external medium. Consequently, when the cross-section of the fiber tip was coated with a SnO 2 thin film, whose RI changes according to the humidity of the surrounding ambient, the measurement of the RH was possible. An increment of the RH produced a decrement of RI of the SnO 2 thin film, then the reflectance of the fiber tip end-face diminished, and this produced a decrement of the visibility of the interference fringes. The analysis of the RDFFPI was carried out in the Fourier domain, using a novel processing method it was possible to establish that the amplitude of two peaks of Fourier spectrum changed at a ratio of 39.49 × 10 -3 %RH -1 in the range of 40 to 90 RH%. On the other hand, the temperature of the humidity chamber was monitored, from 25 to 60 °C at a fixed RH%, by analyzing the phase shift of the interference pattern produced by the changes in the optical path length of the cavities. The good sensitivity, stability, reproducibility, and compactness of the fiber tip RH sensor make this proposal very appealing in a wide range of applications.