title: Carbon dioxide gas sensor derived from a 547-hole microstructured polymer optical fiber preform.
abstract: In this Letter, we report a carbon dioxide gas sensor having 547 pieces of thin-film modified capillaries, which are derived from a microstructured polymer optical fiber preform. Compared with the conventional absorption-based sensor, the monolithic polymer capillary waveguide arrays have better sensitivity, because the huge sensing surfaces, composed of 547 pieces of dye-indicator-doped porous ethyl cellulose layers, interact directly with the gas molecules. As far as we know, a gas sensor based on multichannel capillary waveguide arrays has not been reported before.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Information Road 17, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710119, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang