Abstract
A fiber-optic refractive index (RI) sensor consisting of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) spliced in downstream of a spherical-shape structure in a single-mode fiber (SMF) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The cladding modes with different effective refractive indices can be efficiently excited by the spherical-shape structure. By measuring the difference of the wavelength shifts between the reflected cladding Bragg mode and the core mode, we have achieved a maximum sensitivity of 2.87 nm/RIU with range of the RI from 1.357 to 1.458. When the temperature changes from 25 °C to 225 °C, the relative wavelength shift between the cladding mode and the core mode has no significant changes, which indicates that this fiber-optic sensor allows for temperature-independent RI measurement.
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