Browsing by UPNA Author "Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier"
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Aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO) coated optical fiber LMR refractometers. An experimental demonstration
This work presents the experimental demonstration of lossy mode resonance generation by means of aluminum doped zinc oxide thin-films. The use of such material may allow to optimize the performance of LMR-based sensors, ... -
Analysis of one-dimensional photonic band gap structures with a liquid crystal defect towards development of fiber-optic tunable wavelength filters
A theoretical analysis of a fiber optical photonic band gap based tunable wavelength filter is presented. The design presented here is based on the quarter wave reflector with a liquid crystal defect layer in the middle ... -
An antibacterial coating based on a polymer/sol-gel hybrid matrix loaded with silver nanoparticles
In this work a novel antibacterial surface composed of an organic-inorganic hybrid matrix of tetraorthosilicate and a polyelectrolyte is presented. A precursor solution of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and poly(acrylic acid ... -
An antibacterial surface coating composed of PAH/SiO2 nanostructurated films by Layer by Layer
In this article we propose a novel antibacterial coating composed of SiO2 and the polymer Poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) on glass slides by the technique Layer-by- Layer (LbL)1. This technique has already used in ... -
Asymmetrically and symmetrically coated tapered optical fiber for sensing applications
The deposition of a non-metallic thin-film in a symmetrically coated tapered optical fiber leads to the generation of resonances due to guidance of a mode in the thin-film. At certain conditions, the resonances overlap ... -
A comparative study between SMS interferometers and lossy mode resonace optical fiber devices for sensing applications
Optical fiber sensors are of great interest due to their intrinsic advantages over electronic sensors. In this work, the sensing characteristics of two different and novel optical fiber devices are compared, after ... -
A comparative study in the sensitivity of optical fiber refractometers based on the incorporation of gold nanoparticles into layer-by-layer films
In this work, optical fiber refractometers based on the successive incorporation of gold nanoparticles have been fabricated by means of the Layer-by-Layer Embedding (LbL-E) deposition technique. This enables the apparition ... -
Comparative study of layer-by-layer deposition techniques for poly(sodium phosphate) and poly (allylamine hydrochloride)
An inorganic short chain polymer, poly(sodium phosphate), PSP, together with poly(allylamine hydrochloride), PAH, is used to fabricate layer-by-layer (LbL) films. The thickness, roughness, contact angle, and optical ... -
A comparative study of two different approaches for the incorporation of silver nanoparticles into layer-by-layer films
In this work, a comparative study about the incorporation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) into thin films is presented using two alternative methods, the in situ synthesis process and the layer-by-layer embedding deposition ... -
Comparison between capacitive and microstructured optical fiber soil moisture sensors
Soil moisture content has always been an important parameter to control because it is a deterministic factor for site-specific irrigation, seeding, transplanting, and compaction detection. In this work, a discrete sensor ... -
Comparison between different structures of suspended-core microstructured optical fibers for volatiles sensing
In this paper, different core structures of microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) for low-finesse Fabry-Perot (FP) sensors are experimentally compared to get the highest sensitivity. These devices are designed for volatile ... -
A comprehensive review: materials for the fabrication of optical fiber refractometers based on lossy mode resonance
Lossy mode resonance based sensors have been extensively studied in recent years. The versatility of the lossy mode resonance phenomenon has led to the development of sensors based on different configurations that make use ... -
Continuous liquid-level sensor based on a long-period grating and microwave photonics filtering techniques
A fiber optic liquid-level sensor based on a long period grating (LPG) is proposed and experimentally validated. The principle of operation is based on a technique used to analyze microwave photonics filters. A 4-cm-long ... -
Contribución al desarrollo de refractómetros de fibra óptica basados en resonancias de modos con pérdidas
El desarrollo de nuevos materiales y métodos de deposición a escala nanométrica ha supuesto una auténtica revolución en muchas disciplinas de la investigación. En particular, los recubrimientos nanoestructurados permiten ... -
Contribution to the development of functional nanostructured coatings based on silver nanoparticles
Esta tesis se centra en la síntesis de nanopartículas de plata (AgNPs) y su posterior incorporación en recubrimientos delgados usando dos métodos alternativos: el proceso de síntesis in situ (ISS) de AgNPs y la técnica de ... -
Contribution to the development of optical fibre sensors based on microstructured optical fibres to detect gases and volatile organic compounds
Desde la primera publicación relacionada con las fibras micro estructuradas (MOFs), el desarrollo de sensores basados en fibra óptica (OFSs), que utilizan este tipo de fibras, se ha visto incrementado atrayendo el interés ... -
Copper oxide coated D-shaped optical fibers for the development of LMR refractometers
Lossy mode resonance (LMR) based refractometers obtained by means of copper oxide thin-films fabricated onto side-polished (D-shaped) are presented in this work. The high refractive index of copper oxide combined with the ... -
Deposition of an overlay with electrostactic self-assembly method in long period fiber gratings
It was proved that the deposition of an overlay material onto a long-period fiber grating causes important shifts in the wavelengths of the typical attenuation bands that are caused by coupling between cladding and core ... -
Deposition of coatings on long-period fiber gratings: tunnel effect analogy
The sensitivity of Long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs), coated with high-refractive-index thin film overlays, to the refractive index and the thickness of the overlay, and to the ambient refractive index, can be enhanced ... -
Design rules for lossy mode resonance based sensors
Lossy mode resonances can be obtained in the transmission spectrum of cladding removed multimode optical fiber coated with a thin-film. The sensitivity of these devices to changes in the properties of the coating or the ...