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High-performance fiber sensor via Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on immersing exposed-core microstructure fiber in oriented liquid crystals

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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 3576-3586

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OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.385521

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61505115, 61775149, 61805164, U1813207]
  2. Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen Municipality [JCYJ20160226192754225]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2016A030313059, 2018A030313376]
  4. Basic Research Program funds of Shenzhen [JCYJ20160307145209361]
  5. Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province [2017A010101018]

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Rapid technology development and various applications show great demands for high-quality temperature sensors with super-sensitivity, broad working temperature ranges, excellent linearity and high stability. Although tremendous efforts have been dedicated towards developing fiber sensors with high performance, challenges still remain in achieving all of the four parameters. Herein, we fabricate a fiber sensor via a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) combined with a liquid crystal (LC)-filled microtube, where the LC in the microtube is uniformly orientated. The LCs with uniform orientation treatment play a vital role in the fiber sensor. The feasibility of this sensor was verified by theoretical simulation and demonstrated through experiments. The fabricated LC fiber sensor has super temperature sensitivity of -21.6 nm/degrees C with a good linearity of 0.976 from 22 degrees C to 31 degrees C, -558.5 nm/degrees C from 31 degrees C to 32 degrees C, -37.3 nm/degrees C with a good linearity of 0.999 from 32 degrees C to 34 degrees C and -6.7 nm/degrees C with a good linearity of 0.999 from 34 degrees C to 110 degrees C, respectively. The sensitivity of the fiber sensor is increased by up to 155 times, compared to the previously reported fiber sensor filled with LC based on the MZI without LC orientation treatment. The fiber sensor with super-sensitivity, broad working temperature range, excellent linearity and high stability provides great potential applications in such as environment monitoring, food detection, medicine, and chemical industry. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

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