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23 November 2009 A novel microbending optical fiber temperature sensor
Xuejin Li D.V.M., Yuquan Chen, Yuanlong Deng
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Abstract
This paper presents a novel temperature sensor based on bimetallic strip and optical fiber microbending loss. A bimetallic strip is a mechanical temperature sensor element, is simply constructed from two strips of different metals with different thermal linear expansion coefficient bonded together. A fiber is distorted in a deformer by pressing it between grooved plates. One end of the bimetallic strip is welded on a fixed framework, the other end performed upon the deformer, and form a microbending optical fiber temperature sensor. When the temperature changes, the thermo static bimetallic strip deforms, and causes grooved plates having a displacement according to the temperature changes, and modulates light loss in fiber. The measuring results show measuring range comes to around 100°C with high accuracy and linearity.
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Xuejin Li D.V.M., Yuquan Chen, and Yuanlong Deng "A novel microbending optical fiber temperature sensor", Proc. SPIE 7508, 2009 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Advanced Sensor Technologies and Applications, 75080N (23 November 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839634
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KEYWORDS
Optical fibers

Temperature sensors

Sensors

Fiber optics sensors

Temperature metrology

Metals

Single mode fibers

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