Integrated optical temperature sensor nowadays has attracted extensive interests thanks to its merits of high accuracy, electromagnetic immunity, and compact size compared with the traditional solutions. So far, most of the state-of-art integrated optical temperature sensors work by spectrum detection of a resonant cavity, which has certain limitations in terms of response time and cost, and it is difficult to achieve high level integration of the overall system. To solve the above problems, in this paper we use silicon-based integrated micro-ring array technology for high-precision real-time temperature sensing. By constructing a monotonic relationship between the output light intensity of the micro-ring array with the variation of the temperature, rapid and high-precision temperature measurement could be realized. Depending on different practical scenarios, the system can be customized to adapt specific temperature measurement range and resolution. Through the optimized design, the system accuracy could be better than 60mK covering temperature range of 297K~415K, with response time better than 20μs.
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