Fiber Bragg Grating Humidity Sensing Principle
Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, for which the working principle and main features are presented further below in this paper, can be made by the deposition of a hygroscopic swelling material on the fibre. In this work, we report novel relative humidity sensors realized by functionalising fibre Bragg gratings with chitosan, a moisture-sensitive biopolymer never used before for this kind of fibre optic sensor. A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a type of distributed Bragg reflector constructed in a short segment of optical fiber that reflects particular wavelengths of light and transmits all others.
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