Abstract
We report a temperature sensor based on a Bragg grating written in a benzil dimethyl ketal (BDK) doped multimode (MM) polymer optical fiber (POF) for the first time to our knowledge. The thermal response was further analyzed in view of theory and experiment. In theory, with the order of the reflected mode increasing from 1st to 60th order, for MM silica fiber Bragg grating (FBG) the temperature sensitivity will increase linearly from 16.2pm/°C to 17.5pm/°C, while for MM polymer FBG the temperature sensitivity (absolute value) will increase linearly from −79.5pm/°C to −104.4pm/°C. In addition, temperature sensitivity of MM polymer FBG exhibits almost 1 order larger mode order dependence than that of MM silica FBG. In experiment, the Bragg wavelength shift will decline linearly as the temperature rises, contrary to that of MM silica FBG. The temperature sensitivity of MM polymer FBG is ranged from −0.097nm/°C to −0.111nm/°C, more than 8 times that of MM silica FBG, showing great potential used as a temperature sensor.
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