Tomasz Jurek’s research while affiliated with Warsaw University of Technology and other places

In this paper, the concept and experimental characterization of tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) based sensor for temperature and liquid level measurement are presented. It is shown that, when liquid level increases the peak amplitudes of cladding modes linearly decreases (in dB). In turn, changes in temperature causes a shift of the TFBG transmission spectrum, which can be accurately measured by monitoring the Bragg wavelength corresponding to the liquid level independent core mode. The main advantages of proposed sensor are simple design as well as linear responses to liquid level and temperature.

We present a tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG)-based fiber optic sensor for the simultaneous measurement of liquid level and temperature. Due to different responses of cladding modes and core mode in TFBG spectrum to liquid level and temperature changes, both values can be measured independently. The examined 3.5° TFBG exhibits linear liquid level, as well as temperature, responses and sensitivities of-0.456 ± 0.009 dB/mm and 11.4 ± 0.2 pm/°C, respectively. In addition, greater sensor applicability is proposed for liquids having lower refractive indexes using TFBG with greater tilt angle. The presented system is capable of being applied in chemical, food, and automotive industries as well as, thanks to its all-fiber structure, in potentially hazardous environments where the immunity to electromagnetic fields or/and electric isolation is required.

In this paper the comparative study of spectral transmission characteristics of tilted Bragg gratings made using uniform phase mask and chirped phase mask are presented. Results are focused on low tilt angles with special interest on cladding modes behavior. The spectral characteristic shape for simultaneously tilted and chirped Bragg gratings point out its potential applications as amplitude discriminator in fiber sensing applications and gain flattening element for EDFA.