Demonstration of a high-temperature fiber-optic gas sensor made with a sol-gel process to incorporate a fluorescent indicator

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 25, 1999, Pages 5306-5309

  Remillard, Jeffrey T ^a   Jones, Jeffrey R ^a   Poindexter, Ben D ^a   Narula, Chaitanya K ^a   Weber, Willes H ^a  

^a FORD RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; ION EXCHANGE; METHANE; OXYGEN; PROPANE; SILICA; SOL-GELS; ZEOLITES;

FLUORESCENT INDICATORS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032606205     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005306     Document Type: Article

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