Abstract
Optical fiber humidity sensors have sparked enormous interests in many fields because of their excellent features. However, it remains a great challenge to balance sensitivity, humidity response, temperature crosstalk, and wet hysteresis for real-world application. To overcome this trade-off, an optical fiber humidity sensor is developed here by coating functional graphene oxide (GO)/polyelectrolyte nanocomposite film on the excessively tilted fiber grating (ex-TFG), in which GO/polyelectrolyte nanocomposite film is employed for enhancing the hydrophilicity and accelerating the adsorption/desorption of water molecule, while the ex-TFG is utilized for improving the sensitivity of refractive index and eliminating the crosstalk of temperature. By this design, optical fiber humidity sensors achieve high sensitivity, rapid response and recovery, low hysteresis, and temperature crosstalk as well as excellent repeatability and stability in large relative humidity (RH) range. Our work provides a promising platform for effective RH monitoring systems that can be widely applied in rapid diagnostics, pharmacy, precision medicine, and so forth.
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