Optical humidity sensor based on a liquid whispering-gallery mode resonator

2016/02/10 by Lucía Labrador‐Páez, Lucia Labrador-Paez, Kevin Soler‐Carracedo +14
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic and Optical Devices #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.03322

11 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2016/02/10 · openalex publication_date 2016/02/10 · arxiv updated 2016/02/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

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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