A Tutorial on Fiber-Optic Chemical Sensors

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 1 Issue 6 (1997), S1430-4171(97)06071-8

A Tutorial on Fiber-Optic Chemical Sensors

M. Cecilia Yappert

Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292

Published online: 27 February 1997

Abstract. The development of low-loss optical fibers in the early 1970s not only started a dramatic change in the approach to modern communications but it also triggered the imagination of chemists and physicists, who realized the power of guiding radiation in which a chemical or physical response could be encoded. This chemical or physical information could be transmitted over fairly long distances without complicated optical systems. In addition, because of the small size and flexibility of the fibers, the acquisition of data could be performed in situ in environments not easily accessible by conventional methods of analysis. The range of sensor designs and applications is so very wide and fascinating that it would be quite difficult to describe it all in the limited space of this tutorial.

Key Words: In the Classroom; analytical

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: mcyapp01@homer.louisville.edu)

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