Author Affiliations
1State Key Laboratory of Silicate Building Materials, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan , Hubei 430070, China2State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou , Guangdong 510640, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Fiber structure type: tapered fiber, U-shaped fiber, microstructure fiber, D-shaped fiber
Fig. 2. Optical fiber evanescent wave sensing
Fig. 3. Red shift of interference spectrum for a functionalized tapered optical fiber sensor used to detect Dengue E protein. (a) Without PMMA surface functionalization
[15]; (b) with PMMA surface functionalization
[16] Fig. 4. Nucleic acid functionalized fiber optic probes
[22]. (a) Schematic illustration of the sandwich-type assembly based Ade detection strategy; (b)calibration curve of Ade
Fig. 5. Schematic diagram of experimental setup used to characterize fabricated sensor
[30] Fig. 6. Fe
2O
3 nanotube coating micro-fiber interferometer
[32]. (a) Diagrammatic sketch of gas sensing principle for the Fe
2O
3 coated MFI; (b) sectional view for the multi-core fiber
Fig. 7. MIR molecular fingerprint region
[38] Fig. 8. Evanescent wave biochemical sensing of chalcogenide fibers. (a) FEWS spectra of fed (solid line) and starved (dashed line) mice liver
[41]; (b) human lung cell infrared spectra recorded with the TAS glass fiber
[37] Fig. 9. DIAFIR company’s product in France: TAS fiber evanescent wave sensor
[42] Fig. 10. Polymer-coated fiber sensor
[44]. (a)General measurement principle of EWS of the polymer-coated fiber sensor;(b)IR absorption spectra of six concentrations of the p-xylene aqueous solution recorded by coated and uncoated ChG-TF
Fig. 11. SEM picture
[14]. (a) Holes with different pulse energy; (b) hole with 24 mW pulse energy; (c) hole-array channels; (d) linear channels; (e) measured spectral responses at different CH
4 concentrations; (f) absorption peak intensity as a function of CH
4 concentration
Analyte | Coating | Detection limit | Linear concentration range | Sensitivity | Response time /s | Reference |
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Dengue virus | 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane Dengue virus antibody | 0.1 μg·L-1 | 0.1‒1 μg·L-1 | 7×10-6 pg·mL-1 | ≤2 min | Ref. [17] | Red blood cell | P-doped graphene | | 0‒104 mg·L-1 | >106pm·mg-1·L-1 | <50 s | Ref. [20] | Procalcitonin | Gold nanoparticles Procalcitonin antibody | 95 fg·mL-1 | 0.0001‒100 ng·mL-1 | | ≤15 min | Ref. [21] | Adenosine | DNA | 25 mmol·L-1 | 50‒3.5 mmol·L-1 | | <300 s | Ref. [22] | Methylene blue | | | 2‒50 μmol·L-1 | | ≤16 min | Ref. [25] | Fe3+ | Carbon dot | 0.77 μg·L-1 | 0‒300 μg·L-1 | 0.0061 nm·μg-1·L-1 | ≤4 min | Ref. [28] | Cd2+ | Propylene thiourea | 44.8 μg·L-1 | 0‒13440 μg·L-1 | | | Ref. [29] | pH | ZnO micro-flower hydrogel | Acid: 2.59 nm·pH-1 Alkali: 0.70 nm·pH-1 | pH:3‒11 | | ≤10 s | Ref. [30] | Ammonia | PDMDAAC Sodium pyrophosphate | 0.5 mg·L-1 | 0.5‒50 mg·L-1 | | <3 min | Ref. [33] | CH2O | ZnO nanorod | 1.6 μg·L-1 | 0‒0.18 mg·L-1 | 9.78 dBm·mg-1·L-1 | 200 s | Ref. [34] |
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Table 1.
Research summary of silica fiber biochemical sensing Fiber type | Transmission range /μm | Attenuation /(dB·m-1) | Analyte | Characteristic peak /μm | Concentration range | Response time /s | Reference |
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Ge20Ga5Sb10S65(MoS2) | | | Malignant tumor tissue | | 10-9‒10-10 RIU | | Ref. [39] | As40S60 (Graphene) | | | Hemoglobin | 1 | 18 μg·dL-1 | | Ref. [40] | Ge-As-Se-Te (Polydopamine) | 2.5‒16 | 0.57@6.52 μm | P-xylene | 6.6 | 50 μg·mL-1 | <600 | Ref. [44] | Ge26As17Se25Te32 | 2‒10 | 0.3‒1@5.2‒9.3 μm | CH3CH2OH | 7.87‒8.33 8.92‒10 | 0‒20%(mole fraction) 0‒50% (mole fraction) | | Ref. [45] | Ge26As17Se25Te32 | 5‒9 | | CH3COCH3 | 7.33 8.18 | 1%(mole fraction) | | Ref. [47] | Ge20Se60Te20 | 2.5‒15 | 3.4@5.9 μm | CH3OH CH2Cl2 | 9.78 7.9 | | | Ref. [49] | GaGeSbS | 3‒5 | | CHCl3 | 4.16 | | | Ref. [50] | Ge26As17Se25Te32 | 5.5‒8.5 | <1 | Antigenic additive | 7.83 | 0‒1%(volume raction) | | Ref. [52] | As2S3 | 3‒10 | 1 | CH4 | 3.32 | >10-4 | <20 | Ref. [14] | Ge-Te-AgI | 8‒13.5 | <10 | CO2 | 4.25 15 | | | Ref. [38] |
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Table 2.
Research summary of MIR biochemical optical fiber sensor