GUO Shi-liang, HU Chun-hai, LI Xin etc. A Novel High Sensitivity Optical Microresonator Humidity Sensor[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2014,35(8): 1009-1013
GUO Shi-liang, HU Chun-hai, LI Xin etc. A Novel High Sensitivity Optical Microresonator Humidity Sensor[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2014,35(8): 1009-1013 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20143508.1009.
A Novel High Sensitivity Optical Microresonator Humidity Sensor
A novel optical humidity sensor based on single microring with three couple points was proposed
and polyimide (PI) was used as the moisture material. The transmission characteristics of the PI microring vary with the environmental humidity
which leads to the shift of the output optical spectrum. Humidity was measured by detecting the drift of the output spectrum
meanwhile
the optimal humidity sensing part was selected and the sensing properties of different sensing-parts were discussed. The numerical results show that the sensitivity and the sensing-range are improved obviously and the free spectral range (FSR) of the structure is tripled compared to the conventional single microring sensor. Moreover
the whole structure of single micro-ring with three couple points could be served as the optimum sensing part. The sensitivity of the humidity sensor is up to 0.98 nm/%RH and the sensing relative humidity range is from 10%RH to 80%RH. The structure in this paper is of great importance to low-cost and high sensitivity humidity sensor.
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