Optical Fiber Sensor Technology

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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