Title
Alarm system of optical fibre using the thermal-optical sensibility of the PNIPAAm polymer
Date Issued
04 December 2007
Access level
open access
Resource Type
Conference Proceeding
Author(s)
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Abstract
An alarm system as extrinsic sensor on optical fibers for detecting and controlling inflammable liquids based on thermosensitive proprieties of the PN1PAAm hydrogel is presented. The changes on the optical proprieties of the PN1PAAm with the temperature (being its LCST 32°C), induce abrupt changes on the light intensity and they act as an alarm signal, which is transmitted by optical fibers and after they will be processed by an optoelectronic circuit, responsible to active an alarm. An appropriate system consists of the hydrogel connected between its ends to two segments of plastic optical fibers (source and receiver) and they turn on the alarm when a photo detector does not receive light when the hydrogel becomes when it reaches threshold of temperature. The characterization of the hydrogel and the experimental results are presented for a prototype.
Volume
6619
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-36549032792
ISBN
0819467618
9780819467614
ISSN of the container
0277786X
ISBN of the container
0819467618, 978-081946761-4
Conference
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
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