Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors Science, Technology and Applications Series in Fiber Optic Sensors Series

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 1Introduction: 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

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.