1st Edition

Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors Science, Technology and Applications

Edited By Marcelo M. Werneck, Regina Célia S. B. Allil Copyright 2020
    420 Pages 326 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    420 Pages 326 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors cover the fundamentals and applications of a new class of fiber sensors. With contributions from leading academics in the area, this book covers the theory of plastic optical fiber sensors or (POFs), as well as applications in oil, gas, biotechnology, and energy fields.

    Using multiple examples, the editors showcase the advantageous characteristics of POFs, such as ease of handling, large diameter, inexpensive peripheral components and simple termination tools. By doing so, the editors assert that there has been a proliferation of the use of POFs in new consumer products. The book also highlights uses for building various products, such as a POF sensor for oil trucker valve monitoring, a monitoring system for high voltage substation switch, an oil leaking sensor for offshore platforms and a solar tracker for illumination.

    Including over 300 black and white images, this book would be highly beneficial for professionals in manufacturing as well as academics in universities, particularly those who use optical fiber sensors on a regular basis.

    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.