Humidity sensor based on cascaded chirped long-period fiber gratings coated with TiO2/SnO2 composite films

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 196, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-22

  Chen, Haiyun ^a,b   Gu, Zhengtian ^a   Gao, Kan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c No23 Research Institute of China Electronic Technology Corporation Group   (China)

Author keywords

Cascaded chirped long period fiber grating (CCLPFG); Composite film; Fiber optics; Relative humidity (RH); Resolution; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894568395     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2014.01.090     Document Type: Article

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