Side-polished fiber Bragg grating hydrogen sensor with WO3-Pd composite film as sensing materials

Opt Express. 2011 Mar 28;19(7):6141-8. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.006141.

Abstract

WO3-Pd composite films were deposited on the side-face of side-polished fiber Bragg grating as sensing elements by magnetron sputtering process. XRD result indicates that the WO3-Pd composite films are mainly amorphous. Compared to standard FBG coated with same hydrogen sensitive film, side-polished FBG significantly increase the sensor's sensitivity. When hydrogen concentrations are 4% and 8% in volume percentage, maximum wavelength shifts of side-polished FBG are 25 and 55 pm respectively. The experimental results show the sensor's hydrogen response is reversible, and side-polished FBG hydrogen sensor has great potential in hydrogen's measurement.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Fiber Optic Technology / instrumentation*
  • Hydrogen / analysis*
  • Membranes, Artificial*
  • Oxides / chemistry*
  • Refractometry / instrumentation*
  • Transducers*
  • Tungsten / chemistry*

Substances

  • Membranes, Artificial
  • Oxides
  • Hydrogen
  • tungsten oxide
  • Tungsten