Thermal cycling layer by layer dip coating method for oxazine formation on clad modified optical fiber core

Author

Jalal, Ahmed Hasnain ; Roy, Sandip ; Alam, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2014

fDate

9-11 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper shows plastic optical fiber of 960/1000 μm Core/Cladding as an optical waveguide by removing a portion of the cladding section of the fiber via chemical etching and then applying dip coating method to fabricate 0.0005 M Oxazine 170 per Chlorate on the bare core. It is then followed by a Poly Di-Methyl Siloxane (PDMS) layer to design an opto-chemical sensor, to be used in detection of pH-based contaminants in air and water. The thickness of PDMS layer varies between 130-145 μm and that of Oxazine layer varies between 20 - 25 μm. This paper also shows a novel moisture trapping technique, necessary to trap moisture within PDMS and Oxazine which results in proper detection of contaminants.

Keywords

chemical sensors; dip coating; fibre optic sensors; optical fibre cladding; optical polymers; PDMS; chemical etching; clad modified optical fiber core; layer dip coating method; moisture trapping technique; optical waveguide; optochemical sensor; oxazine formation; pH-based contaminant detection; plastic optical fiber; poly dimethyl siloxane; size 20 mum to 145 mum; thermal cycling layer; Etching; Fabrication; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Clad-modified; Dip coating; Organic solvent etching; PDMS; POF;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vellore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAEE.2014.6838462

Filename

6838462