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Novel Gas Sensor Utilizes Random-Hole Optical Fiber

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Breck Hitz, Senior Technical Editor

Monitoring the gaseous emissions of processes, especially high-temperature processes such as coal combustion, is a continuing challenge to sensor designers. Fiber optic sensors have provided elegant solutions to many such challenges, but conventional optical fibers are problematic at elevated temperatures (≥1000 °C) because the dopants migrate between the core and the cladding, diminishing the fiber's waveguiding capabilities. Recently, scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg demonstrated a fiber optic gas sensor that would be impervious to the high temperatures that...Read full article

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    Published: September 2004
    coal combustionenergyFeaturesfiber optic sensorsgaseous emissionsoptical fibersSensors & Detectors

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