Principle of Fiber Optic Hydrogen Sensor
Most of the interference fiber optic hydrogen sensors rely on the principle of the interference of the light in fiber, including the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, Michelson interferometer, Fabry–Perot interferometer, and so on. This review discusses a variety of fiber-optic-based H 2 sensor technologies since the year 1984, including: interferometer technology, fiber grating technology, surface plasma resonance (SPR) technology, micro lens technology, evanescent field technology, integrated optical waveguide technology. Their configurations and sensing performances proposed by different groups worldwide are reviewed, compared and discussed in this paper. To further increase safety levels when dealing with hydrogen, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz Institute, HHI are working on fiber-optic-based sensors that can detect hydrogen and are superior to conventional sensors in many respects.
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