A Dual-Cavity Fabry-Perot Interferometric Fiber-Optic Sensor for the Simultaneous Measurement of High-Temperature and High-Gas-Pressure

Abstract

A fiber optic dual-cavity Fabry-Perot interferometer(DFPI) for simultaneous high- temperature and high-gas-pressure measurements is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed sensing structure consists of an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) with a short piece of hollow core fiber (HCF) for gas pressure sensing, and an intrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (IFPI) made of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for temperature sensing. The composite interference signal is filtered in the frequency domain to obtain two independent interference spectra, and then is demodulated by using white light interferometry (WLI). The experimental results show that the sensor exhibits good linearity over a temperature range from 40 to 1000°C with a cavity-length temperature sensitivity of 25.3 nm/°C, and a pressure range from 0 to 10 MPa with a cavity-length pressure sensitivity of 1460 nm/MPa at 40°C. This proposed sensor are light-weight and small, and it has a compact structure and a high temperature resistance.