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In-Line Gas Sensor Based on a Photonic Bandgap Fiber With Laser-Drilled Lateral Microchannels
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Sensors Journal IEEE Sensors J. Sensors Journal, IEEE. 11(11):2926-2931 Nov, 2011
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robotics and Control Systems
Optical fiber sensors
Absorption
Optical fiber amplifiers
Fiber lasers
Optical fiber networks
Laser beams
Gas detectors
infrared sensors
optical fiber sensors
photonic bandgap fibers
Language
ISSN
1530-437X
1558-1748
2379-9153
Abstract
The fabrication, characterization, and gas sensor application of a hollow core photonic bandgap fiber (HC-PBGF) with laser drilled lateral microchannels will be described. The HC-PBGF was tailor-made for gas sensing applications in the near infrared region from 1.5 to 1.7 $\mu{\rm m}$ wavelengths, covering the first harmonic absorptions of quite a number of natural gas components. Laser-drilled, lateral microchannels makes access to the light guiding core of the HC-PBGF and offers the ability to realize fast-responding, distributed gas sensor cells with large optical path lengths. The application of those cells in a distributed sensor arrangement using white light spectroscopy combined with chemometrical methods as interrogation method will be demonstrated.