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Highly sensitive sensor for measuring material thermal expansion using a ring laser
(IEEE, 2023) Díaz Lucas, Silvia; Fuentes Lorenzo, Omar; Torres Betancourt, Angie Tatiana; Corres Sanz, Jesús María; Matías Maestro, Ignacio; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren
A new thermal expansion sensor is presented in this letter. It combines an interferometric fiber sensor and an erbium-doped fiber ring laser as the light source. The sensor consists of a combination of single-mode, hollow-core, and no-core mirror fibers. The sensor was tested on two different types of based metal, such as aluminum and steel, giving sensitivities as high as 38.7 and 5.75 nm/°C, respectively, showing good performance.
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Lossy mode resonance-based sensors in planar configuration: a review
(IEEE, 2023) Matías Maestro, Ignacio; Del Villar, Ignacio; Corres Sanz, Jesús María; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren
Lossy mode resonance (LMR)-based sensors have attracted much interest during the last decade in the domain of optical fiber (OF). Here, it is shown that the progress made in the transfer of this technology to planar waveguides (PWs) with different sensing applications such as environmental sensors and biosensors. In addition, the inherent advantages in terms of robustness, simplicity, and easiness to generate novel complex structures are discussed.
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Planar-waveguide-lmr-based sensors: engineering the depth of characteristic curves
(IEEE, 2023) Shrivastav, Anand M.; Del Villar, Ignacio; Ascorbe Muruzabal, Joaquín; Corres Sanz, Jesús María; Matías Maestro, Ignacio; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren
Lossy mode resonance (LMR)-based sensors have been proven as one of the exponentially growing research fields since the last decade. These sensors have demonstrated their capabilities in the detection of several physical, chemical, and biological entities, such as refractive index, humidity, gases, enzymes, etc. Conventionally, LMR-based sensors are developed using optical fiber as the sensing platform, but to increase the broad range of applications and better tenability, planar waveguide substrates for LMR realization have been introduced in the last few years. This provides a greater degree of freedom for the sensor design such as tunability in substrate thickness, material, and better surface immobilization. The current study focuses on evaluating the effect of substrate thickness on LMR-based optical sensors to achieve higher sensing performance. For experiments, 150-μm-thick glass coverslips are used as the thin planer substrate, which is then coated with a few nanometers thick LMR-supported SnO 2 layer using the dc sputtering method. Furthermore, to monitor the effect of the changing substrate thickness, the width of the glass coverslip is reduced through the chemical etching process using the 40% HF solution, and simultaneously, the changes in LMR spectra are analyzed. The study shows that the depth of LMR curves strongly depend on the thickness of the waveguide providing LMRs with lower substrate thickness possesses higher depth. Greater depth in LMR curves is a crucial factor in identifying the minimum transmission wavelength of resonance, making it easier to track and detect the targeted parameter. This characteristic greatly enhances the applicability of LMR-based sensors in industrial applications.
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Printed optical waveguide temperature sensor with rhodamine-doped core
(IEEE, 2024-06-08) Dávila Galiana, Rebeca Beatriz; Matías Maestro, Ignacio; Zabala, Silvia; Socorro Leránoz, Abián Bentor; Rivero Fuente, Pedro J.; Corres Sanz, Jesús María; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoa eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritza; Ingeniería; Ingeniaritza; Institute of Smart Cities - ISC; Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2; Gobierno de Navarra / Nafarroako Gobernua
This letter demonstrates the fabrication of a temperature optical sensor by printing the corresponding sensitive optical waveguide directly onto a flexible flat substrate. The printed waveguide was carried out using a coaxial needle and an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) machine. The fluorescent organic compound, rhodamine B, was used for doping the core of the printed waveguide as temperature sensible dye. The optical sensitive waveguide manufactured is compact, ensuring coupling with the input and output optical fibers. The response of the printed optical sensor was evaluated to temperature variations by measurement of both, the peak intensity and the wavelength of the fluorescence spectra. The experimental characteristic and sensitivity of the sensor were obtained.

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