Nano optical temperature sensor based on fiber Bragg grating using graphene

Abstract

In this paper, a novel Graphene-Assisted Microfiber based temperature sensor is proposed that changing the surrounding temperature has a severe effect on the refractive index of the graphene, so these changes result in the transmission power of microfiber. In the proposed structure, the position of the graphene sheet affects the interaction of light and graphene, effectively. Simply, by examining the change in transmission power, the temperature sensitivity of 0.1038 dBC in the heating process and 0.1072 dBC in the high-resolution cooling process of 0.0098 ℃ is obtained, which is 16 times more than bare fiber. Moreover, in this paper, both MgF2 layer and the graphene ribbon affect fiber refractive index so a high sensitivity, compact size, low cost, linear operation and suitable transmission coefficient temperature sensor is achieved. This sensor has great potential in the field of measurement, especially surrounding temperature measurement. Also, a comprehensive and detailed study of the properties of surface conductivity, electric dispersion, refractive index and permittivity for graphene with sensitivity simulation is accomplished.