2016/03/24 by Gregory A. Cooksey, Zeeshan Ahmed, Cooksey, Gregory A. +1
Engineering · #Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Photonic and Optical Devices #Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.07743
openalex publication_date 2016/03/24 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The integration of photonic sensors into microfluidic devices provides opportunities for dynamic measurement of chemical and physical properties of fluids in very small volumes. We previously reported on the use of commercially available Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) and on-chip silicon waveguides for temperature sensing. In this report, we demonstrate the integration of FBGs into easy-to-fabricate microfluidic devices and report on their sensitivity for temperature and pressure measurement in microliter volumes. These sensors present new routes to measurement in microfluidic applications such as small-volume calorimetry and microflow metrology.