Transverse-Stress Compensated Methane Sensor Based on Long-Period Grating in Photonic Crystal Fiber

Autor: Hai Liu, Yanzeng Zhang, Cong Chen, Bingbing Bai, Qiyuan Shao, Haoran Wang, Wen Zhang, Cancan Chen, Shoufeng Tang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 7, Pp 175522-175530 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2951133
Popis: A high-sensitive and transverse-stress compensated methane sensor based on a photonic crystal fiber long-period grating (PCF-LPG) is proposed. The outermost layer of the PCF consists of six large sideholes, five of which are coated with methane-sensitive compound film to achieve methane measurement. Such side-hole structure is helpful for gas sensitive reaction, but not conducive to avoiding external stress interference. Therefore, the last large hole is plated with silver layer to eliminate the cross-sensitivity effect through adding a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensing channel with the consideration of photo-elastic effect and material deformation. Results show that the methane gas sensitivity can reach up to 6.39nm/% with the transverse-stress compensation. The sensor is very simple and effective, which provides a new method of gas measurement combined with different actual conditions.
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