Single-mode sapphire optical fiber temperature sensor

Wang M, Salter PS, Payne FP, Shipley A, Dyson IN, Wang T, Zhang K, Zhang J, Jia Z, Morris SM, Booth MJ, Fells JAJ

Sapphire fiber is intrinsically multimoded, resulting in poor precision sensors. We demonstrate a 4-cm single-mode sapphire fiber with a Bragg grating temperature sensor and a standard-fiber tail, operating up to 1200°C.