Dimension-Reduction Sensing Demonstrated
A dimension-reduction technique demonstrated by researchers at the
University of South Carolina in Columbia and
ChemIcon Inc. in Pittsburgh promises to expand fiber-based multiwavelength and multispecies chemical sensing applications. The technique incorporates a two-dimensional to one-dimensional, 608-fiber array that guides the light from a chemical probe to the detector for spectrographic analysis.
The researchers prepared two 1-mm-diameter probes for the experiment, demonstrating stacked and side-by-side configurations of indicators for O
2 and CO
2 in sol-gel. A spectrograph measured the relative intensity of the luminescent response of the indicators at different concentrations of the gases.
The team, which reported the work in
Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 55, No. 2, noted that the technique is most useful for producing multiwavelength concentration gradients or chemical images.
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