1st Edition
Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors Science, Technology and Applications
Contents
Foreword ............................................................................................................ vii
Series Foreword .................................................................................................. ix
Preface ............................................................................................................... xi
Editors ...............................................................................................................xix
Contributors .......................................................................................................xxi
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Plastic Optical Fibers? ........................................ 1
Hui Pan
Chapter 2 Principles of Polymer Optical Fibers ...............................................21
Ricardo Oliveira, Lúcia Bilro, and Rogério N. Nogueira
Chapter 3 Optical Fiber Sensing Principles .....................................................67
Daniel André Pires Duarte, Rogério N. Nogueira, and Lúcia Bilro
Chapter 4 LED-POF-Photodiode as Sensing Elements in high Voltage
Environment ................................................................................. 93
Marcelo Martins Werneck
Chapter 5 Current and Voltage Sensing ........................................................107
Marcelo Martins Werneck
Chapter 6 POF Bragg Gratings ......................................................................131
David Webb
Chapter 7 temperature Sensing by rubi Fluorescence ..................................153
Marcelo Martins Werneck
Chapter 8 Gas Sensing ................................................................................171
Meysam M. Keley
Contents
Chapter 9 Biological Sensing .......................................................................189
Regina Célia da Silva Barros Allil
Chapter 10 POF Displacement Sensors ...........................................................221
Joseba Zubia
Chapter 11 Chemical Sensing with POF ..........................................................251
Filipa Sequeira, Rogério N. Nogueira, and Lúcia Bilro
Chapter 12 POF Sensors for Structural health Monitoring ...............................267
Aleksander Wosniok
Chapter 13 POF and radiation Sensing ......................................................... 285
Pavol Stajanca
Chapter 14 Microstructured POFs ..................................................................313
Maryanne Large and Marcelo Martins Werneck
Chapter 15 POF applications ........................................................................ 353
Marcelo Martins Werneck
Index............................................................................................................... 389
Biography
Marcelo Martins Werneck received the Degree in electronic engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro, in 1975 and his M.Sc. degree from the Biomedical Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in 1977. His Ph.D. degree was obtained from the University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., in 1985. He is the Coordinator of the Instrumentation and Photonics Laboratory at the Electrical Engineering Program, UFRJ. His research interests include fiber optics sensors, nanobiosensors, transducers and instrumentation.
Regina Célia da Silva Barros Allil received her BSc Degree in electronic engineering from the Faculdade Nuno Lisboa, Rio de Janeiro, in 1988, and the M.Sc. degree from the Biomedical Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in 2004. Her D.Sc. degree was obtained from the Electrical Engineering Program (UFRJ), in 2010 and the post-doctorate from the Electrical Engineering Program (UFRJ), in 2012. Actually, she is a Visiting Professor of the Instrumentation and Photonics Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Program, UFRJ. Her research interest lies in fiber optics sensors, optoelectronic instrumentation and biosensors.
