Fiber optic high temperature sensor based on ZnO composite graphene temperature sensitive material

Abstract

The working temperature of the cable is particularly important for the safe operation of the power system, which requires high temperature detection for its working environment, but the sensitivity of the ordinary optical fiber temperature sensor in the high temperature state cannot meet this demand. For this purpose, an optical fiber high temperature sensor based on ZnO composite graphene temperature sensitive material is developed in this paper. MMF-TSCF-MMF temperature sensing unit is composed of two sections of multimode fiber (MMF) and a tapered seven core fiber (TSCF). Three different shapes of ZnO@Gr (ZnO composite graphene) temperature-sensitive materials were prepared by hydrothermal method. The experimental results show that the sensor has high stability and good interference effect. Meanwhile, the wavelength sensitivity reached 0.33268 nm/°C in a temperature measurement range of 89–98 °C. The fiber sensor is used for precision temperature measurement of cable temperature in fields such as electrical engineering due to its high temperature sensitivity, small size and low cost.