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Optofluidic gutter oil discrimination based on a hybrid-waveguide coupler in fibre.
- Source :
- Lab on a Chip; 2/21/2018, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p595-600, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Discriminating edible oils from gutter oils has significance in food safety, as illegal gutter oils cannot meet a variety of criteria such as the acid value, peroxide value and quality. To discriminate these illegal cooking oils, we propose an ultrasensitive optofluidic detection method based on a hybrid-waveguide coupler. Prior to the straight waveguide inscription in the cladding of the silica tube using a femtosecond laser, a section of coreless fibre is firstly spliced with the ST to supply a platform for the inscription of an S-band waveguide. Then a pair of microfluidic channels are ablated on the ST using the fs laser to enable liquid analytes to flow in and out of the air channel. In the transmission spectrum, a unique resonant loss dip can be observed, which is produced by coupling the light from the laser inscribed waveguide to the liquid core when the phase-matching condition is met. This hybrid-waveguide coupler with a simplified structure realizes dynamic optofluidic refractive index sensing with an ultrahigh sensitivity of −112 743 nm RIU<superscript>−1</superscript>, a detection limit of 2.08 × 10<superscript>−5</superscript> RIU and a refractive index detection range from 1.4591 to 1.4622. This novel method can be used for food safety detection, specifically, for the discrimination of gutter oils. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- OPTOFLUIDICS
WAVEGUIDES
FOOD safety
FEMTOSECOND lasers
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14730197
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Lab on a Chip
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 127978352
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c8lc00008e