Temperature-insensitive refractive index sensor based on tilted moiré FBG with high resolution

Abstract

We proposed and fabricated a tilted moiré FBG (TMFBG), whose grating section was made up of two consecutive scribed TFBGs. By adjusting the Bragg wavelengths and the tilt angles of the two TFBGs, the two cladding mode combs of the transmission spectrum are non-overlapped. When the TMFBG was used for refractive index detection, its resolution can reach 2 × 10^-7 RIU, which is an order of magnitude higher than that of a single TFBG. And this result also has a good performance of temperature-insensitivity.