Simultaneous Measurements of Temperature and Pressure With a Dual-Cavity Fabry-Perot Sensor

A fiber-optic dual-cavity Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor for the simultaneous measurement of temperature and pressure is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The sensor cascades a fiber-optic intrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (IFPI) and an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI). The IFPI is used as the temperature sensor and the EFPI is used as the pressure sensor. The pressure sensor is based on a diaphragm-free structure and can work stably at high temperature. Two optical path differences are interrogated simultaneously by using the fast Fourier transform-based white-light interferometry and the peak-to-peak method. Experimental results show that the proposed sensor exhibits a temperature sensitivity of 29.63 nm/°C within the temperature range of 40 °C-1100 °C and a pressure sensitivity of 1465.8 nm/MPa within the pressure range of 0-10 MPa at the room temperature.