Optical microfiber coupler based humidity sensor with a polyethylene oxide coating

Optical microfiber couplers (MFCs) with certain geometries are sensitive to local refractive changes. By incorporating a humidity-sensitive polyethylene oxide coating, a tapered optical MFC can work as a humidity sensor. We fabricated such a humidity sensor and demonstrated its sensing ability by monitoring spectral shifts in a wavelength domain. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:457–460, 2015

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