Micro-bottle resonator for sodium hypochlorite sensor
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2021
Abstract
Optical micro-bottle resonator (MBR) structure fabricated based on arc fusion approach is widely deployed to fabricate compact, cheap and versatile sensors. In this work, MBR sensor is proposed and demonstrated for measuring sodium hypochlorite concentration. The MBR has a bottle diameter, bottle length and stem diameter of 180 mu m, 183 mu m and 125 mu m respectively. It is fabricated through a `soften-and-compress' method using a fusion splicer. A tapered microfiber with a 2 mu m diameter is used to launch light into the structure. The wavelength gallery mode resonances are observed with a Q-factor of approximately 7.95 x 105. It seems that the power of the transmitted light through the MBR reduces with the increase of sodium hypochlorite concentration from 1% to 6%. The sensitivity of the sensor is about 3.7319 dB/%ppm, which is higher than that of the bare microfiber-based sensor. The whispering gallery mode's resonance wavelength also shifts from 1552.203 nm to 1552.213 nm with a sensitivity of 0.002 nm/%ppm and linearity of 97.64%, as the hypochlorite concentration increases from 1% to 6%. These results indicate that the MBR structure has a great potential to be used as a sodium hypochlorite sensor.
Keywords
Micro-bottle resonator, Whispering gallery modes, Sodium hypochlorite sensor
Divisions
sch_ecs
Funders
Universiti Malaya [GPF062A-2018]
Publication Title
Optik
Volume
242
Publisher
Elsevier
Publisher Location
HACKERBRUCKE 6, 80335 MUNICH, GERMANY