Abstract

Traditional electrical expendable bathythermograph (XBT) is designed to fall at a known rate based on a great deal of experiments so that the depth of the temperature profile can be inferred from the time it enters the water. Unlike the traditional electrical XBT, which derives the depth from fall-rate equations, we propose an all-optical fiber (AOF) XBT (AOF-XBT) based on cascade of two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). In the AOF-XBT, the depth data comes from one FBG, which responds in real time to the pressure acting on the diaphragm, and temperature data can be measured via the other FBG simultaneously. First, the pressure and temperature response characteristics of the AOF-XBT are analyzed based on a finite element method. Then, the temperature and pressure calibrations for the AOF-XBT is completed after they are packaged. Results show that the mean-temperature sensitivity of two sensors are 14.765 and 13.705 pm/°C in the range of 5°C–30°C, and the mean-pressure sensitivities are ${-}{2.75586}$ and ${-}{3.00472}\;{\rm{nm/MPa}}$ in the range of 0–0.6 MPa, respectively. At last, by comparing the results obtained from the AOF-XBT and the SBE 911plus CTD that tested in the sea area of Weihai, the trends of the temperature-depth profile from the two devices are consistent, which presents a new all-optical technique to provide full ocean temperature-depth profile observations.

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