Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors

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.

• ContentsForeword ............................................................................................................ viiSeries Foreword .................................................................................................. ixPreface ............................................................................................................... xiEditors ...............................................................................................................xixContributors .......................................................................................................xxiChapter 1 Introduction: Why Plastic Optical Fibers? ........................................ 1Hui PanChapter 2 Principles of Polymer Optical Fibers ...............................................21Ricardo Oliveira, Lúcia Bilro, and Rogério N. NogueiraChapter 3 Optical Fiber Sensing Principles .....................................................67Daniel André Pires Duarte, Rogério N. Nogueira, and Lúcia BilroChapter 4 LED-POF-Photodiode as Sensing Elements in high VoltageEnvironment ................................................................................. 93Marcelo Martins WerneckChapter 5 Current and Voltage Sensing ........................................................107Marcelo Martins WerneckChapter 6 POF Bragg Gratings ......................................................................131David WebbChapter 7 temperature Sensing by rubi Fluorescence ..................................153Marcelo Martins WerneckChapter 8 Gas Sensing ................................................................................171Meysam M. KeleyContentsChapter 9 Biological Sensing .......................................................................189Regina Célia da Silva Barros AllilChapter 10 POF Displacement Sensors ...........................................................221Joseba ZubiaChapter 11 Chemical Sensing with POF ..........................................................251Filipa Sequeira, Rogério N. Nogueira, and Lúcia BilroChapter 12 POF Sensors for Structural health Monitoring ...............................267Aleksander WosniokChapter 13 POF and radiation Sensing ......................................................... 285Pavol StajancaChapter 14 Microstructured POFs ..................................................................313Maryanne Large and Marcelo Martins WerneckChapter 15 POF applications ........................................................................ 353Marcelo Martins WerneckIndex............................................................................................................... 389