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Abstract
A highly sensitive temperature and refractive index (RI) sensor based on no-core fiber (NCF) cascaded with a balloon-shaped bent single-mode fiber (BSBSF) is proposed and demonstrated. The NCF can excite higher-order modes which will be concentrated and transmitted into the BSBSF due to the characteristic of self-imaging effect. The BSBSF has an excellent temperature performance due to the high thermo-optical coefficient and thermal expansion coefficient of the polymer coating. The NCF and BSBSF are both conducive to the excitation of higher-order modes, which induces the sensitivity of the sensor with an efficiency improvement. The experimental results show that the maximum temperature sensitivity is ${-}{3.19}\;{\rm nm/{^\circ}{\rm C}}$ in the range of 22°C–83°C, which is the highest temperature sensitivity in the cascaded BSBSF structure to our best knowledge. In addition, the maximum RI sensitivity is 232.16 nm/RIU when the RI changes from 1.3234 to 1.3512. Compared with other cascaded BSBSF structures, this sensor has a higher temperature sensitivity and can be applicated in the prospects of food, biology, and environmental monitoring.
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