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  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 33,
  • Issue 12,
  • pp. 2566-2571
  • (2015)

Temperature-Insensitive Hydrogen Sensor With Polarization-Maintaining Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based Sagnac Interferometer

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Abstract

We demonstrated a temperature-insensitive hydrogen ( $H_{2}$ ) sensor based on polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF). The sensing element is a section of PM-PCF coated with Pd/Ag composite film and is incorporated into a single mode fiber Sagnac loop interferometer. The birefringence of PM-PCF is modulated by $H_{2}$ absorption that induces deformation of the Pd/Ag composite film, resulting in shift of the interference spectrum at the output of the Sagnac interferometer. A magnetron facing target sputtering technique with special Pd/Ag rectangular target structures is developed to deposit Pd/Ag composite film on the cylindrical surface of the PM-PCF and the atomic ratio of Pd/Ag composite film is controlled by setting appropriate volume ratio in rectangular target. An empirical linear relationship between atomic ratio and volume ratio was obtained and the $H_{2}$ sensing capacity with different atomic ratio of Pd/Ag composite films was investigated experimentally. The results showed that increasing the proportion of Pd in the composite film improves the $H_{2}$ detection sensitivity. The sensitivity can also be improved by using as longer length of Pd/Ag coated PM-PCF. With ∼100 mm long coated PM-PCF as the sensing element, we obtained ∼1.310 nm shift in the interference spectrum for $H_{2}$ concentration from 0 to 1%. The sensitivity coefficient is ∼131 pm% in the range of 1% to 4% $H_{2}$ concentration. The sensor has low temperature dependence and good repeatability.

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