Optical humidity sensor based on a liquid whispering-gallery mode resonator
Optics
2016-02-11 v1
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate the use of a novel liquid state, whispering-gallery-mode optical resonator as a highly sensitive humidity sensor. The optical resonator used consists of a droplet made of glycerol, a transparent liquid that enables high optical quality factor, doped with rhodamine 6G, which acts as fluorescent emitter. As glycerol is highly hygroscopic, the refractive index and radius of the droplet change with ambient humidity. This produces a shift on the whispering gallery modes wavelengths, which modulates the emission of rhodamine 6G. This easily-made device has an unpreceded sensitivity of 10-3 per relative humidity percent.
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@article{arxiv.1602.03322,
title = {Optical humidity sensor based on a liquid whispering-gallery mode resonator},
author = {Lucia Labrador-Paez and Kevin Soler-Carracedo and Miguel Hernandez-Rodriguez and Inocencio R. Martin and Tal Carmon and Leopoldo L. Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03322},
year = {2016}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures