Fiber optic humidity sensor based on silk fibroin interference films

Authors

  • Zbigniew Opilski Department of Optoelectronics, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
  • Marcin Procek Department of Optoelectronics, Silesian University of Technology, Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
  • Salvador Aznar-Cervantes Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario y Alimentario (IMIDA), La Alberca (Murcia), 30150, Spain
  • Jose Cenis Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario y Alimentario (IMIDA), La Alberca (Murcia), 30150, Spain
  • Xavier Munoz Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), Bellaterra (Barcelona), 08193, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v12i2.1018

Abstract

The article presents an inexpensive and simple method of fiber optic interference relative humidity (RH) sensors based on silk fibroin (SF) films. The sensors were made on standard multimode telecommunications optical fibers using dip-coating method and examined using broadband light sources. The measuring stand at which the basic sensor parameters were measured and the measured parameters were presented.

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Published

2020-07-01

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[1]
Z. Opilski, M. Procek, S. Aznar-Cervantes, J. Cenis, and X. Munoz, “Fiber optic humidity sensor based on silk fibroin interference films”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 49–51, Jul. 2020.

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2020)

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