Title :
Three-fiber based diffuse reflectance measurement technique for non-destructive measurement of sugar content in fruit and its verification by electronically tuned Ti:sapphire laser in the wavelength range 900-1070 nm
Author :
Shimomura, Yoshiaki ; Miki, Shinichi ; Ichise, Hideaki
Author_Institution :
Ind. Technol. Center of Nagasaki
Abstract :
In this paper, a three-fiber based diffuse reflectance measurement method for the sugar content of fruit, using only three near-infrared lasers, with the electronically tuned Ti:sapphire laser as a light source
Keywords :
agricultural products; chemical variables measurement; fibre optic sensors; laser tuning; measurement by laser beam; reflectivity; spectrochemical analysis; sugar; 900 to 1070 nm; Al2O3:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; fruit; laser tuning; sugar content; three-fiber based diffuse reflectance measurement; Diffraction gratings; Infrared spectra; Laser tuning; Light sources; Measurement techniques; Optical pulse generation; Reflectivity; Spectroscopy; Sugar industry; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548291
