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Salinity profile is an indicator of quality of water and marine life. Existing electrical salinity sensors are not very selective and suffer interference from presence of different kinds of ions. Thus they are being readily supplanted with optical fiber sensors, with added remote sensing capabilities and selectivity. Furthermore, the refractive index (RI) of the solutions bear strong correlation with amount of salt contained, thus rendering salinity measurement based on refractrometric techniques appropriate. In this paper, an etched fiber Bragg grating (eFBG) based evanescent field sensor is proposed that is capable of detecting salinity with sensitivity of approximately 1.825 nm/RIU at a concentration of 25% (% w/w) of sodium chloride (NaCl) at a constant temperature of 25°C.
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