Measurement Techniques

, Volume 53, Issue 5, pp 563–568 | Cite as

Liquid concentration sensor based on slot waveguide microresonators

  • I. A Goncharenko
  • A. I. Konoiko
  • A. M. Polikanin
Physicochemical Measurements

A schematic diagram and operating principle are considered for an integrated optical concentration sensor based on slot waveguide microresonators, due to whose use the sensitivity of the sensor to a change in concentration may reach 0.001–0.01%. By means of this device, it is possible the concentration of both still gases and liquids and those flowing with a considerable velocity. The sensor may have a considerable number of sensing elements that makes it possible to monitor concentration simultaneously at different points of the volume of substance.

Key words

integrated optical sensor concentration measurement slot waveguide ring microresonator optical length resonance wavelength 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • I. A Goncharenko
    • 1
  • A. I. Konoiko
    • 2
  • A. M. Polikanin
    • 2
  1. 1.Command-Engineering InstituteBelarus Ministry for EmergenciesMinskBelarus
  2. 2.Institute of PhysicsBelarus National Academy of SciencesMinskBelarus

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