TY - GEN
T1 - High-sensitivity polymer fibre Bragg grating sensor for biomedical applications
AU - Bhowmik, Kishore
AU - Ambikairajah, Eliathamby
AU - Peng, Gang Ding
AU - Luo, Yanhua
AU - Rajan, Ginu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - Single-mode polymer optical fibre Bragg gratings (POFBGs) are etched to different diameters and their potential for the development of high-sensitivity sensors are presented. The material properties of the fibre can be changed by etching and thus the etching procedure can have an impact on the performance of POFBGs. To confirm that the material properties of etched polymer fibre can be modified and its sensitivity enhanced, sensing characteristics of different etched POFBGs for pressure, strain and temperature are investigated. From the experimental results, we show that the sensors based on etched polymer fibres exhibit a higher sensitivity and they are more desirable than the un-etched ones for biomedical applications. Two examples of low pressure sensor such as blood pressure sensor and foot pressure sensor are demonstrated. With etching, enhanced sensitivity and bio-compatible polymer fibre sensors could be very useful for biomedical applications.
AB - Single-mode polymer optical fibre Bragg gratings (POFBGs) are etched to different diameters and their potential for the development of high-sensitivity sensors are presented. The material properties of the fibre can be changed by etching and thus the etching procedure can have an impact on the performance of POFBGs. To confirm that the material properties of etched polymer fibre can be modified and its sensitivity enhanced, sensing characteristics of different etched POFBGs for pressure, strain and temperature are investigated. From the experimental results, we show that the sensors based on etched polymer fibres exhibit a higher sensitivity and they are more desirable than the un-etched ones for biomedical applications. Two examples of low pressure sensor such as blood pressure sensor and foot pressure sensor are demonstrated. With etching, enhanced sensitivity and bio-compatible polymer fibre sensors could be very useful for biomedical applications.
KW - Etching
KW - Fibre Bragg grating (FBG)
KW - Polymer optical fibre (POF)
KW - Pressure Sensor
KW - Sensitivity
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U2 - 10.1109/SAS.2016.7479822
DO - 10.1109/SAS.2016.7479822
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84977543448
T3 - SAS 2016 - Sensors Applications Symposium, Proceedings
SP - 78
EP - 82
BT - SAS 2016 - Sensors Applications Symposium, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2016
Y2 - 20 April 2016 through 22 April 2016
ER -