New type of light-guide sensor

Anatoly Babchenko; Josef S. Bodenheimer; Meir Nitzan

doi:10.1117/12.151114

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13 August 1993 New type of light-guide sensor

Anatoly Babchenko, Josef S. Bodenheimer, Meir Nitzan

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Proceedings Volume 1972, 8th Meeting on Optical Engineering in Israel: Optoelectronics and Applications in Industry and Medicine; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.151114
Event: 8th Meeting in Israel on Optical Engineering, 1992, Tel Aviv, Israel

Abstract

We present a new type of intensity-modulated sensor based on a coated lightguide. Using a physical model of the coated lightguide the output light intensity was computed as a function of the reflection and transmission complex coefficients at the substrate-film and film-ambient interface. Based on these theoretical results an experimental setup for measuring various parameters of a liquid was constructed. The results demonstrate the dependence of the output signals on the characteristics of the substrate-film-ambient system. In particular the output signal increases for some incidence angles as the refractive index of the ambient medium increases.

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Anatoly Babchenko, Josef S. Bodenheimer, and Meir Nitzan "New type of light-guide sensor", Proc. SPIE 1972, 8th Meeting on Optical Engineering in Israel: Optoelectronics and Applications in Industry and Medicine, (13 August 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.151114

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