Optical fiber temperature sensor design

Abstract

The optical fiber sensing system is free from the effects of electromagnetic wave interference and radio frequency interference. The temperature difference between the incoming light source at one end of the fiber optic cable and the temperature of the sensor will cause a difference in wavelength between the incoming light source and the light reflected by a sensor or passed by a sensor. The difference in wavelength will be converted into RGB value, then the RGB value will be converted into a temperature. It becomes a strong reason why this research takes the topic of temperature sensor design using fiber optics. The method to design fiber optic sensors used in this research is experiment, such as: - heating the ends of the fiber optic core with analytic splicers so it will obtain spherical and oval shape of the optical fiber end, -peeling the jacket between two ends of the fiber optics and coating optical fiber with plates. The calibration and validation method is using RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) of the temperature which measured by Infrared thermometer and optical fiber sensor designed in this research. The test results for temperature measurements between 303oK to 543oK by using optical fiber sensor designed by researcher show that the reflected light model has error 1,596683 and forwarded light model has error 1,029278.