Single optical microfiber enabled tactile sensor for simultaneous temperature and pressure measurement
Single optical microfiber enabled tactile sensor for simultaneous temperature and pressure measurement
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DOI：
10.1364/prj.461182
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Limin Tong
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作者：
Ni Yao;Xiaoyu Wang;Shuqi Ma;Xingda Song;Shan Wang;Zhangxing Shi;Jing Pan;Shipeng Wang;Jianliang Xiao;Haitao Liu;Longteng Yu;Yao Tang;Zhang Zhang;Xiong Li;Wei Fang;Lei Zhang;Limin Tong
The ability to sense heat and touch is essential for healthcare, robotics, and human–machine interfaces. By taking advantage of the engineerable waveguiding properties, we design and fabricate a flexible optical microfiber sensor for simultaneous temperature and pressure measurement based on theoretical calculation. The sensor exhibits a high temperature sensitivity of 1.2 nm/°C by measuring the shift of a high-order mode cutoff wavelength in the short-wavelength range. In the case of pressure sensing, the sensor shows a sensitivity of 4.5% per kilopascal with a fast temporal frequency response of 1000 Hz owing to the strong evanescent wave guided outside the microfiber. The cross talk is negligible because the temperature and pressure signals are measured at different wavelengths based on different mechanisms. The properties of fast temporal response, high temperature, and pressure sensitivity enable the sensor for real-time skin temperature and wrist pulse measurements, which is critical to the accurate analysis of pulse waveforms. We believe the sensor will have great potential in wearable optical devices ranging from healthcare to humanoid robots.
