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Sensitivity improvement of a humidity sensor based on silica nanospheres on a long-period fiber grating

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2009

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Viegas, Diana
Santos, José Luís
Araújo, Francisco Moita
Ferreira, Luis Alberto

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MDPI
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Abstract

This work addresses a new configuration that improves the sensitivity of a humidity sensor based on a long-period fiber grating coated with a SiO(2)-nanospheres film. An intermediate higher refractive index overlay, deposited through Electrostatic Self-Assembly, is placed between the fiber cladding and the humidity sensitive film in order to increase the total effective refractive index of the coating. With this intermediate design, a three-fold improvement in the sensitivity was obtained. Wavelength shifts up to 15 nm against 5 nm were achieved in a humidity range from 20% to 80%.

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Humidity sensor, Long period fiber grating, Nanospheres, Electrostatic self assembly method, Coatings, Nanofilms

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Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica / Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa

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© 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

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