Design optimization, optical biosensors

In this chapter, an overview on fiber-optic chemical and biosensors is presented focusing on transducers and transduction mechanisms, sensor design, sensor development and processing, and sensor characterization and optimization. A few examples are presented on chemical vapor detection and biosensing applications. At the end of the chapter, the theory and application of the newly developed detection technique, which is called the SIM technique, is presented. 

In this chapter, a general introduction to fiber-optic sensors is presented, followed by sections on the principle of sensors design and sensors development and processing, as well as on sensors characterization and optimization. The technical feasibility and viability of fiber optics in chemical and biosensors applications have been demonstrated with a number of examples and a list of references on successfully reported research. Also, an overview on state-of-the-art research is presented, which is still under development and requires more work before the ultimate limits imposed by fiber optics science and technologies are reached. 

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