Urrutia Azcona, AitorGoicoechea Fernández, JavierRicchiuti, Amelia L.Barrera, D.Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier2020-09-222020-09-2220160925-400510.1016/j.snb.2015.12.031https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/38214A humidity and temperature optical fiber sensor based on a long-period grating (LPG), which can provide simultaneous response to both magnitudes, is proposed and demonstrated via experiments. Previously, the LPG was fully coated with humidity sensitive nanostructured polymeric thin films by the Layer-by-Layer (LbL) nano assembly technique. Hence the surrounding refractive index was changed, so provoking wavelength shifts of the attenuation bands of the transmission spectrum. This fully coated LPG was exposed to relative humidity (RH) and temperature tests, varying from 20% to 80% RH and from 25 to 85 °C, respectively. Then, half of the LPG coating was chemically removed and this results in the splitting of the main attenuation band into two different contributions. When this semi-coated LPG was also exposed to RH and temperature tests, the new two attenuation bands presented different behaviors for humidity and temperature. This novel dual-wavelength based sensing method enables the simultaneous measurement of RH and temperature using only one LPG.23 p.application/pdfeng© 2015 Elsevier B.V. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.Optical fiber sensorsHumidityTemperatureLong period gratingLbL assemblyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess