A fiber-optic relative-humidity (RH) sensor composed of multilayer of porous dielectric films is proposed. The transducer deposited on fiber end-face is multilayer coating consisting of nano-porous TiO2 and SiO2 fil...A fiber-optic relative-humidity (RH) sensor composed of multilayer of porous dielectric films is proposed. The transducer deposited on fiber end-face is multilayer coating consisting of nano-porous TiO2 and SiO2 films, which forms a low-fineness Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter with one of minimum reflections at about 1350- nm wavelength. The dielectric thin films realized by e-beam evaporation without ion-source assistance have columnar and porous structures, which exhibit sensitivity to RH change of environments. When the sensor is exposed to an environment of RH change from 10.9% to 92.8%, experimental results demonstrate 77.9-nm shift of characteristic wavelength.展开更多
文摘A fiber-optic relative-humidity (RH) sensor composed of multilayer of porous dielectric films is proposed. The transducer deposited on fiber end-face is multilayer coating consisting of nano-porous TiO2 and SiO2 films, which forms a low-fineness Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter with one of minimum reflections at about 1350- nm wavelength. The dielectric thin films realized by e-beam evaporation without ion-source assistance have columnar and porous structures, which exhibit sensitivity to RH change of environments. When the sensor is exposed to an environment of RH change from 10.9% to 92.8%, experimental results demonstrate 77.9-nm shift of characteristic wavelength.