Fiber-Optic Chemical Sensors and Biosensors (2008–2012)

Glucose‐Sensitive Hydrogel Optical Fibers Functionalized with Phenylboronic Acid

“…[1b, 5] Optical sensors offer advantages over electrochemical assays since they can be constructed to be label-free, provide real-time continuous monitoring for long periods of time, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and can be calibrated internally. [6] One of the promising approaches for optical glucose sensors is to covalently incorporate glucose-sensitive chelating agents such as phenylboronic acid (PBA) derivatives [7] into matrixes such as or micro- and nanostructures including holographic thin films, [8] crystalline colloidal arrays, [9] plasmonic nanoantennas, [10] Fabry-Perot cavities, [11] fluorescent dyes, [12] and quantum dots (QDs).…”

Oligonucleotide-Hybridization Fiber-Optic Biosensor Using a Narrow Bandwidth Long Period Grating

“…In particular, the development of fiber-optic, label-free biosensors is of special interest: they can be designed to be specific and selective, they show compact size and are capable to be point-of-care devices [1][2][3]. Within the applications of fiber-optic biosensors, the detection of DNA hybridization is of much interest, due to their specific capability to detect particular DNA sequences that might be of interest for environmental, biological or health applications, epidemic controls, diagnosis, drug research, etc.…”

Analytical study of planar waveguide sensor with a metamaterial guiding layer

“…Environmental monitoring, pharmaceutical industries, and food industries are the other possible fields of applications for waveguide sensors. Moreover, waveguide sensors are used in chemical sensing, biosensing, and biochemical sensing [1][2][3]. Detecting small changes in refractive index of sensing within proximity of sensing layer is the basic precept of optical waveguide sensors.…”