Research on Temperature Sensor Using Rhodamine6G Film Coated Microstructure Optical Fiber

Temperature monitoring plays a key role in the kinetics of chemical reaction. In this paper, a sensitive dynamic temperature monitoring sensor based on the rhodamine6G (R6g) film coated anti-resonance fiber (ARF) is proposed. Because of the high thermo-dependent fluorescence intensity of R6g, the ARF coated with R6g film is highly sensitive to the temperature variation, forming the basis of our proposed temperature sensor application. To enhance the temperature monitoring performance and strengthen the florescence intensity, one of the ARF ends spliced a silica ball for reflecting the input signal, and the other end is inserted with two tapered multimode fiber (MMF), acting as bridges for the input of pump light and the output of signal light, respectively. The dual-peak reached the temperature resolution of 3.946×10 -2 °C and 3.991×10 -3 °C with linearity of 0.99914 and 0.99953 respectively. The experiment results show that the output fluorescence and pump light intensity decrease with the increasing temperature. These excellent characteristics demonstrate a highly sensitive dual-peak sensor for temperature calibration with wide potential applications, such as environmental monitoring, mine monitoring and other fields of chemical kinetics.