A fiber cladding modified Sm<inf>2</inf>O<inf>3</inf> used for sensing toxic gases. The phenomenon of evanescent wave absorption is the basic sensing principle. The sensitivity towards Benzene sensing has been studied using as-prepared and annealed (500°C and 1200°C). © OSA 2014.

Angarai Ramanathan Ganesan

Department Of Physics

Balusamy Renganathan

Optical fibers

Photonics

Effect of annealing

Evanescent wave absorption

FIBER CLADDINGS

OPTICAL FIBER CLADDING

SAMARIUM OXIDES

SENSING PRINCIPLE

TOXIC GAS

Gas sensing electrodes

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International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, 2014

Effect of annealing on toxic gas sensing using samarium oxide as optical fiber cladding

Journal	International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, 2014
Publisher	Optical Society of America (OSA)
Open Access	No