Thermosensitive fluorescence lifetime measurements enable accurate thermometry independent of intensity fluctuations along the optical path. Here, we report lifetime-based temperature measurements of a single europium-doped particle optically trapped in an air-filled hollow-core fiber. A frequencydomain fluorescence lifetime measurement setup was integrated into a dual-beam optical trap. The measured apparent lifetime shows a linear temperature dependence of −1.8 µs/K for excitation at 400 Hz. The results were repeatable over multiple cooling and heating cycles. In addition to temperature sensing, the influence of the high-power trapping laser on the measured apparent lifetime and fluorescence intensity was investigated. The observed laser-induced particle heating can be exploited to increase the fluorophore's sensitivity and operating range for low-temperature sensing. Fluorescence lifetime measurements of optically trapped particles inside a hollow-core fiber are promising for temperature sensing with micrometer spatial resolution over meter-scale distances.Index Terms-frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime, hollowcore fiber, optical trapping, flying particle temperature sensor
I. INTRODUCTIONF IBER optic sensors that exploit temperature-dependent scattering or reflections along a sensing fiber are widely used for distributed temperature measurements in harsh environments [1]- [5]. As a new versatile optical sensor platform, Manuscript