Ammonia sensing using a fibre optic long period grating with a porous nanostructured coating formed from silica nanospheres

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7653, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Korposh, S ^a,b   Batty, W ^a   Kodaira, S ^b   Leeb, S W ^a   James, S W ^a   Topliss, S M ^a   Tatamc, R P ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KITAKYUSHU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia sensing; Fibre optic long period grating; Silica nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA SENSING; AMMONIA SENSORS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CHEMICAL SPECIES; FIBRE OPTIC; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; NANOSTRUCTURED COATINGS; POROUS MULTILAYERS; SENSING MECHANISM; SENSITIVE MATERIALS; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SILICA NANOSPHERES; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

AMMONIA; COATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONICS; SENSORS; SILICA; SOLUTIONS;

FIBERS;

EID: 77957863617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.866326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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