Optical Fiber Sensor Technology

Chemical and Environmental Sensing
1999
ISBN: 978-0-412-84420-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 336 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1490 g

Reihe: Optoelectronics, Imaging and Sensing

Environmental and chemical sensors in optical fiber sensor technology The nature of the environment in which we live and work, and the precarious state of many aspects of the natural environment, has been a major lesson for scientists over the last few decades. Public awareness of the issues involved is high, and often coupled with a scepticism of the ability of the scientist and engineer to provide an adequate, or even rapid solution to the preservation of the environment before further damage is done, and to achieve this with a mini­ mum of expenditure. Monitoring of the various aspects of the environment, whether it be external or internal to ourselves and involving chemical, physical or biomedical parameters is an essential process for the well-being of mankind and of the individual. Legis­ lative requirements set new standards for measurement and control all around us, which must be met by the most appropriate of the technologies available, commensurate with the costs involved. Optical fiber sensor technology has a major part to play in this process, both to complement existing technologies and to promote new solutions to difficult measurement issues. The developments in new sources and detectors covering wider ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, with higher sensitivity, allow the use of techniques that some time ago would have been considered inappropriate or lacking in sufficient sensitivity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meggitt, B. T.

Grattan, L.S.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Angewandte Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Mikroprozessoren
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Lichtwellenleiter
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Physik, Chemie für Ingenieure
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik Werkzeugbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 ‘Many hands make light work’—a perspective on optical fiber from communications to measurement and sensing.- 2 Optical fiber chemical sensor systems and devices.- 3 Sol-gel fiber optic chemical sensors.- 4 Biomedical fiber optic sensors: Problems and prospects.- 5 Fiber optic sensors in environmental monitoring.- 6 Integrated optic sensors.- 7 Fiber optic luminescence thermometry.- 8 Luminescent optical fibers in sensing.- 9 Liquid crystals in optical fiber sensors.- 10 White light interferometric optical fiber sensing techniques.