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We theoretically proposed the concept of temperature sensing using the soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS) effect in a fluorotellurite microstructured fiber (FTMF) which had one ring of six alcohol-infiltrated air holes. The glass material for the fiber core was 70TeO2–20BaF2–10Y2O3 and the cladding AlF3–BaF2–CaF2–YF3–SrF2–MgF2–TeO2. Based on SSFS effect, temperature sensing in the mid-infrared (MIR) region was achieved by detecting the wavelength shift of solitons with the variation of temperature. Using a 2800 nm fiber laser with a pulse width of 131 fs as the pump light and a 0.5-m-long FTMF as the nonlinear media, the temperature sensing sensitivity could be as high as 2.09 nm/°C. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study concerning temperature sensing in the MIR region by drawing on SSFS effect in a non-silica FTMF.
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This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFB2204001 and 2017YFA0701201), National Natural Science Foundation of China (61775032 and 11604042), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (N180406002, N180408018, and N2004021), JSPS KAKENHI Grant (17K18891 and 18H01504), JSPS and CERN under the JSPS-CERN joint research program, and 111 Project (B16009). The authors thank the Liao Ning Revitalization Talents Program.
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Cheng, T., Sun, Y., Zhang, F. et al. Numerical demonstration of mid-infrared temperature sensing by soliton self-frequency shift in a fluorotellurite microstructured fiber. Appl. Phys. B 127, 156 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-021-07695-6
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