Abstract

This Letter reports a slow-light fiber Bragg grating (FBG) temperature sensor with a record temperature resolution of $\sim 0.3\mathrm{m}°\mathrm{C}/\surd \mathrm{Hz}$, a drift of only $\sim 1\mathrm{m}°\mathrm{C}$ over the typical duration of a measurement ($\sim 30\mathrm{s}$), and negligible self-heating. This sensor is particularly useful for applications requiring the detection of very small temperature changes, such as radiation-balanced lasers and the measurement of small absorptive losses using calorimetry. The sensor performance is demonstrated by measuring the heat generated in a pumped Yb-doped fiber. The sensor is also used to measure the slow-light FBG’s very weak internal absorption loss ($0.02{\mathrm{m}}^{-1}$), which is found to be only $\sim 2\%$ of the total loss.

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