Optimising Design for Polymer Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors

Rongsheng Chen; Federico Formenti; Hanne McPeak; Andrew N Obeid; Clive E W Hahn; Andrew D Farmery

Optimising Design for Polymer Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors

Rongsheng Chen, Federico Formenti, Hanne McPeak, Andrew N Obeid, Clive E W Hahn, Andrew D Farmery

Centre for Human & Applied Physiological Sciences

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Abstract

The development of a clinically useful fiber-optic oxygen sensor based on oxygen fluorescence quenching is described in this paper. The fiber optic oxygen sensor was formed by coating a thin polymer matrix, which contains an oxygen sensitive fluorophore, on the tapered end of a polymer optical fiber. Three acrylate polymers have been used for the matrix, and the sensitivity and time-response of the oxygen sensors were tested. The results showed that the sensitivity and time response of the sensors can be modified using different polymer matrices. Using these modifications, a very fast time response of the polymer fiber-based oxygen sensor could be readily achieved and the fastest T10−90 response time were <100 ms.

Original language	English
Journal	IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Fiber optic sensor
polymer optical fiber
oxygen quenching
fluorescence

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Optimising Design for Polymer Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors

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