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Optimal design of a fluorescence oxygen sensing probe based on multimode optical fibers

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In this paper, a theoretical model of a multimode optical fiber based fluorescence sensor was proposed and established with the aims to optimize specific physical parameters of the sensor including the refractive index of the fluorescent matrix, external diameter and the length of sensing fiber probe which were calculated using the beam propagation method. The plane wave at wavelengths of 395 or 505 nm was used as the excitation light source. The excitation light power in the coating layer was calculated to obtain more excitation fluorescence. The change of fluorescence intensity with structural differences of the parameters was analyzed. The theoretical results showed that for a pure silica fiber using a matrix of higher refractive index (>1.458) material was effective in improving fluorescence performance. The optimized external diameter of the sensing fiber probe was found to be >206 μm with a 200 µm fiber core diameter when the refractive index of the sensing layer is 1.49. Increasing the thickness of the sensing layer increased the level of fluorescence excitation. The fluorescence intensity excited by 395 nm light is stronger than that of light at 505 nm.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61177075; 61008057; 11004086; 61475066; 61405075), the Core Technology Project of Strategic Emerging Industries of Guangdong Province (2012A032300016; 2012A080302004), Special Funds for Discipline Construction of Guangdong Province (2013CXZDA005), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Nos. 21614313; 21613325; 21613405).

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  1. Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

    Yingxin Zeng, Zhe Chen, Huihui Lu & Xingdan Chen

  2. Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information and Sensing Technologies, Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Guangzhou, China

    Zhe Chen, Huihui Lu & Xingdan Chen

  3. Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

    Yingxin Zeng, Rongsheng Chen, Yanbiao Liao & Jianbin Liu

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Zeng, Y., Chen, Z., Chen, R. et al. Optimal design of a fluorescence oxygen sensing probe based on multimode optical fibers. Opt Quant Electron 47, 2371–2379 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-015-0165-7

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