Journal
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 322-328Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2004.827274
Keywords
active fiber core optical sensor (AFCOS); humidity sensor; optical-fiber chemical sensor; porous sol-gel silica fiber; sol-gel silica
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A new concept in optical-fiber chemical sensors, the active fiber core optical sensor (AFCOS), is presented. In this sensor, the fiber core acts as a transducer. The sensitivity of an AFCOS sensor is compared with that of an active coating [evanescent wave (EW)] based optical-fiber sensor. Requirements for a fiber core to act as a chemical sensor are discussed. Novel techniques for making a porous sol-gel silica fiber, doping chemical reagents into the fiber, and constructing a chemical sensor using the porous fiber as a transducer have been developed. The microstructure of the fabricated sol-gel silica fiber and the effect of the fiber's microstructure on the capability of the porous sol-gel silica fiber for guiding light are discussed. A humidity sensor employing a COCl2-doped porous sol-gel fiber as a transducer has been constructed as an example. The test results for the humidity sensor verified a theoretical analysis indicating that an optical-fiber chemical sensor using an active fiber core as a transducer has a much higher sensitivity than that of an EW-based sensor.
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