Ratiometric optical fiber dissolved oxygen sensor based on metalloporphyrin and CdSe quantum dots embedded in sol-gel matrix

The sensitivity of optical fiber dissolved oxygen sensor is quantified in terms of the ratio I0/I100, where I0 and I100 represent the detected luminescence intensities in fully-deoxygenated and fully-oxygenated water, respectively. The experimental results show that the sensitivities of the ratiometric optical fiber dissolved oxygen sensors are estimated to be 21.7 for PdTFPP-doped sensor, 7.4 for PdTCPP-doped sensor, 6.5 for PtTFPP-doped sensor and 9.2 for PtOEP-doped sensor. The ratiometric sensing approach presented in this study has the advantage of suppressing the effects of spurious fluctuations in the intensity of the excitation source and optical transmission properties of the optic fiber.