Abstract
A theoretical analysis and an experimental demonstration are presented to show the increase in collected evanescent fluorescence for a fiber-optic sensor having a high refractive-index titanium sol-gel, thin-film coating. Simulations indicated that the maximum collected fluorescence should increase and shift to smaller film thicknesses as increases and also predicted an interference color-filtering effect. Experimentally, collected fluorescence increased by as much as over that from a bare fused-silica fiber having a numerical aperture of 0.60. Simulations and experimental data were consistent with a decrease in the effective as film thickness increases. Electron micrographs of the sol-gel structure supported this observation and showed that the structure differs significantly from that of films formed on a planar glass substrate. High sol-gel thin films are a potentially inexpensive approach to significantly increasing the signal from fiber sensors.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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