Fiber Optic Temperature Sensor Fabrication Method
We demonstrate the fabrication of fiber-optic Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) temperature sensors by bonding a small silicon diaphragm to the tip of an optical fiber using low melting point glass powders heated by a 980 nm laser on an aerogel substrate. Besides, they exhibit high measurement speeds and high sensitivity due to the large thermal diffusivity and the large thermo-optic coefficient of silicon and the small size of the sensing element. Fiber Bragg gratings are very efficient at temperature sensing and are easy to implement; however, they always need additional techniques to discriminate the Bragg shifts by temperature and by strain/compression and they also require expensive phase-masks.
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