Syllabus
- Definition of a sensor, classification of sensors, physical, chemical sensors and biosensors ? conceptual approaches, major performance characteristics of sensors.
- Introduction to optical phenomena and technologies used in optical sensors: optical waves (polarization, coherence, interference,), material properties (dispersion, absorption, scattering, luminescence), and optical waveguides (planar waveguides, optical fibers).
- Sensors based on absorption and luminescence spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared and IR spectroscopy, sensors based on Raman (scattering) spectroscopy, surface enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy and their applications for chemical sensing and biosensing.
- Optical sensors based on spectroscopy of guided modes of dielectric waveguides (grating coupler, resonant mirror) and metalic waveguides (surface plasmon resonance sensors) and their applications for measurement of physical and (bio)chemical quantities
- Interferometric sensors based on Michelson, Twyman-Green, Mach-Zehnder, Sagnac, Young, and Fabry-Perot interferometers and their applications for measurement of physical, and (bio)chemical quantities.
- Optical sensors for multi-point measurements, optical fiber sensors using Bragg gratings, optical sensor networks, multiplexing strategies for optical sensors, distributed optical fiber sensors for measurement of physical quantities.
Annotation
Optical sensors, their principles, main configurations, typical implementations and applications.