The outstanding influence of end-face-TIR on enhancing signal intensity of fiber-optic EW fluorescence sensor

Cong Wang; Huacai Chen; Jianjun Ma

doi:10.1117/12.905068

22 November 2011 The outstanding influence of end-face-TIR on enhancing signal intensity of fiber-optic EW fluorescence sensor

Cong Wang, Huacai Chen, Jianjun Ma

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Proceedings Volume 8199, 2011 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Sensors and Applications; 819914 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905068
Event: International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology (OIT2011), 2011, Beijing, Beijing, China

Abstract

A fiber-optic evanescent wave (EW) fluorescence sensor is often selected for its excellent performance, to detect the surface-specific event that takes place within a wavelength thickness of the immediate surface layer of the fiber core outside. In this paper, we describe a specific fiber-optic EW fluorescence sensor with a naturally built-in high signal to noise ratio, including a novel sensing architecture. It includes two identical, low hydroxyl content, large core, multimode plastic-clad silica fibers that are set perpendicular to one another, with a fiber for delivering incident exciting light and the other for receiving fluorescent light. An assay on the fiber-optic fluorescence sensor capable of simultaneously enhancing fluorescent signal and eliminating stray excitation light was examined. Such a capability can be achieved by reshaping a fluorescent sample fluid droplet and regulating the distance between the light exit of incident fiber and the bare core segment of receiving fiber. The prime significance of this work lies in its revelation of the outstanding influence of end-face total internal reflection (end-face-TIR) on enhancing signal intensity of fiber-optic EW fluorescence sensor, which reroutes the trajectories of the end-face-TIR capable rays and causes some of them to be detectable at the receiving end.

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Cong Wang, Huacai Chen, and Jianjun Ma "The outstanding influence of end-face-TIR on enhancing signal intensity of fiber-optic EW fluorescence sensor", Proc. SPIE 8199, 2011 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Sensors and Applications, 819914 (22 November 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905068

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