摘要
The combination of optical fiber with graphene has greatly expanded the application regimes of fiber optics,from dynamic optical control and ultrafast pulse generation to high precision sensing.However,limited by fabrication,previous graphene-fiber samples are typically limited in the micrometer to centimeter scale,which cannot take the inherent advantage of optical fibers—longdistance optical transmission.Here,we demonstrate kilometers long graphene-coated optical fiber(GCF)based on industrial graphene nanosheets and coating technique.The GCF shows unusually high thermal diffusivity of 24.99 mm^(2) s^(-1) in the axial direction,measured by a thermal imager directly.This enables rapid thermooptical response both in optical fiber Bragg grating sensors at one point(18-fold faster than conventional fiber)and in long-distance distributed fiber sensing systems based on backward Rayleigh scattering in optical fiber(15-fold faster than conventional fiber).This work realizes the industrial-level graphene-fiber production and provides a novel platform for two-dimensional material-based optical fiber sensing applications.
出处
《Research》
SCIE
EI
CAS
CSCD
2021年第1期286-294,共9页
研究(英文)
基金
support from the National Science Foundation of China(61705032 and 61975025)
the 111 project(B14039)
the UESTC-ZTT joint laboratory project(H04W180463).