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Optical Fiber Sensor Technology

Chemical and Environmental Sensing

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. K. T. V. Grattan

    1. Department of Electrical, Electronic & Information Engineering, City University, London, UK

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  2. B. T. Meggitt
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Part of the book series: Optoelectronics, Imaging and Sensing (OISS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. ‘Many hands make light work’ — a perspective on optical fiber from communications to measurement and sensing

    • K. T. V. Grattan
    Pages 1-13

  3. Optical fiber chemical sensor systems and devices

    • Brian D. MacCraith
    Pages 15-46

  4. Sol-gel fiber optic chemical sensors

    • M. R. Shahriari
    Pages 47-65

  5. Biomedical fiber optic sensors: Problems and prospects

    • Richard B. Thompson
    Pages 67-85

  6. Fiber optic sensors in environmental monitoring

    • G. Stewart
    Pages 87-112

  7. Integrated optic sensors

    • J. V. Magill
    Pages 113-132

  8. Fiber optic luminescence thermometry

    • K. T. V. Grattan, Z. Y. Zhang
    Pages 133-203

  9. Luminescent optical fibers in sensing

    • K. T. V. Grattan, Z. Y. Zhang, T. Sun
    Pages 205-247

  10. Liquid crystals in optical fiber sensors

    • A. T. Augousti, J. Mason
    Pages 249-269

  11. White light interferometric optical fiber sensing techniques

    • Y. N. Ning, K. T. V. Grattan
    Pages 271-317

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 319-336
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Environmental and chemical sensors in optical fiber sensor technology The nature of the environment in which we live and work, and the precarious state of many aspects of the natural environment, has been a major lesson for scientists over the last few decades. Public awareness of the issues involved is high, and often coupled with a scepticism of the ability of the scientist and engineer to provide an adequate, or even rapid solution to the preservation of the environment before further damage is done, and to achieve this with a mini­ mum of expenditure. Monitoring of the various aspects of the environment, whether it be external or internal to ourselves and involving chemical, physical or biomedical parameters is an essential process for the well-being of mankind and of the individual. Legis­ lative requirements set new standards for measurement and control all around us, which must be met by the most appropriate of the technologies available, commensurate with the costs involved. Optical fiber sensor technology has a major part to play in this process, both to complement existing technologies and to promote new solutions to difficult measurement issues. The developments in new sources and detectors covering wider ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, with higher sensitivity, allow the use of techniques that some time ago would have been considered inappropriate or lacking in sufficient sensitivity.

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  • Department of Electrical, Electronic & Information Engineering, City University, London, UK

    K. T. V. Grattan

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