Polymer Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings in CYTOP Fibers for Angle Measurement with Dynamic Compensation
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Arnaldo Leal-Junior 1,*
, Antreas Theodosiou 2, Camilo Díaz 1, Carlos Marques 3, Maria José Pontes 1, Kyriacos Kalli 2 and Anselmo Frizera-Neto 1
Arnaldo Leal-Junior 1,*, Antreas Theodosiou 2, Camilo Díaz 1, Carlos Marques 3, Maria José Pontes 1, Kyriacos Kalli 2 and Anselmo Frizera-Neto 1
1
Graduate Program of Electrical Engineering of Federal University of Espirito Santo, 29075-910 Vitória, Brazil
2
Photonics and Optical Sensing Research Laboratory, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol 3036, Cyprus
3
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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Polymers 2018, 10(6), 674; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym10060674
Received: 16 May 2018 / Revised: 7 June 2018 / Accepted: 15 June 2018 / Published: 17 June 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Holographic Materials and Photonic Applications)
This paper demonstrates the use of polymer optical fiber Bragg gratings (POFBGs) for angle measurements over a range of different oscillatory frequencies. The POFBGs are inscribed in low-loss, cyclic transparent amorphous fluoropolymers (CYTOP) and are imprinted using the direct-write, plane-by-plane femtosecond laser inscription method. As the polymer has a viscoelastic response and given that the Young’s modulus depends on the oscillatory frequency, a compensation technique for sensor frequency cross-sensitivity and hysteresis is proposed and verified. Results show that the proposed compensation technique is able to provide a root mean squared error (RMSE) reduction of 44%, and a RMSE as low as 2.20° was obtained when compared with a reference potentiometer. The hysteresis reduction provided by the proposed technique is 55%, with hysteresis <0.01. The results presented in this paper can pave the way for movement analysis with POFBG providing higher sensitivity and low hysteresis over a large range of motion frequencies.
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Keywords:
polymer optical fiber; fiber Bragg gratings; CYTOP; curvature sensor; hysteresis
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Leal-Junior, A.; Theodosiou, A.; Díaz, C.; Marques, C.; Pontes, M.J.; Kalli, K.; Frizera-Neto, A. Polymer Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings in CYTOP Fibers for Angle Measurement with Dynamic Compensation. Polymers 2018, 10, 674.
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