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A sensitivity-enhanced hot-wire anemometer based on a cladding-etched optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) coated with a layer of silver film and optically heated by using a 1480 nm laser diode is demonstrated. The silver film absorbs the laser power to heat the FBG to a certain high temperature and the airflow cools down the FBG hot-wire with the cooling effect and hence the Bragg wavelength of the FBG is determined by the airflow velocity. Experimental measurement results show that the heating efficiency of the FBG hot wire is improved by 3.8 times in magnitude by etching the fiber cladding from 125 µm down to 73.4 µm, and the achieved airflow velocity sensitivities, under a laser power of 200 mW, are −3 180 pm/(m/s), −889 pm/(m/s), −268 pm/(m/s), and −8.7 pm/(m/s) at different airflow velocities of 0.1 m/s, 0.5 m/s, 1.5 m/s, and 17 m/s, respectively. In comparison, the sensitivities are only −2193 pm/(m/s), −567 pm/(m/s), −161 pm/(m/s), and −4.9 pm/(m/s) for the reference anemometer without cladding etching even at a much higher heating laser power of 530 mW. These results prove that the method by using a cladding-etched FBG to improve sensitivity of FBG-based hot-wire anemometers works and the sensitivity is improved significantly.
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Sponsor and financial support acknowledgments are placed here. This work was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFB1805804), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11974083), Open Projects Foundation (Grant No. SKLD1905) of State Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber and Cable Manufacture Technology (YOFC), and the Program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Entrepreneurial Teams (Grant No. 2019ZT08X340).
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Tang, Y., Chen, X., Zhang, J. et al. Sensitivity-Enhanced Hot-Wire Anemometer by Using Cladding-Etched Fiber Bragg Grating. Photonic Sens 13, 230305 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-023-0676-y
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