Journal
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Volume 8, Issue 7-8, Pages 1093-1098Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.926524
Keywords
humidity; long period grating (LPG); optical fiber; polyvinyl alcohol (PVA); sensors
Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (U.K.)
- Kidde Plc
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D009162/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/D009162/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A long period grating (LPG) coated with polyvinyl alcohol has been developed and evaluated through exposure to a range of relative humidity (RH) levels (from 33%RH to 97%RH). The conditions for the creation of the sensor probes are described and the response of the device in terms of changes in the resonance loss of several of the spectral loss bands has been monitored. In order to make comparative measurements, a noncoated LPG was exposed to various known refractive index (RI) conditions and the grating response was monitored, analyzed and the results evaluated. This is then related to the change in RH when the sensor is exposed to various RH levels, as the coating RI changes, leading to the change in resonance loss. The PVA coated LPG sensor is showing a relatively fast response time of similar to 80 s to reach 97%RH from 33%RH and inducing similar to 2 dB change in transmission of resonance loss band.
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