Nanomaterials (Dec 2021)

SOI Waveguide Bragg Grating Photonic Sensor for Human Body Temperature Measurement Based on Photonic Integrated Interrogator

  • Hongqiang Li,
  • Zhixuan An,
  • Quanhua Mao,
  • Shasha Zuo,
  • Wei Zhu,
  • Shanshan Zhang,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Enbang Li,
  • Juan Daniel Prades García

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12010029
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
p. 29

Abstract

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A waveguide Bragg grating (WBG) provides a flexible way for measurement, and it could even be used to measure body temperature like e-skin. We designed and compared three structures of WBG with the grating period, etching depth, and duty cycle. The two-sided WBG was fabricated. An experimental platform based on photonic integrated interrogator was set up and the experiment on the two-sided WBG was performed. Results show that the two-sided WBG can be used to measure temperature changes over the range of 35–42 °C, with a temperature measurement error of 0.1 °C. This approach has the potential to facilitate application of such a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) WBG photonic sensor to wearable technology and realize the measurement of human temperature.

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