Ocean Optics has expanded its optical sensor coating services, enabling OEMs and product developers to create and manufacture custom oxygen and pH sensor accessories for optical chemical sensing
These accessories include fibre optic probes, cuvettes, Petri dishes and microscope slides.
The added services include the licensing of Ocean Optics proprietary oxygen and pH coating technologies, and custom sensor coating research and development.
They also include contract manufacturing services using a client's proprietary indicator with Ocean Optics's coating, or using a client's proprietary coating and indicator.
Fibre optic chemical sensing is a means by which chemicals can be detected using a spectrometer, a light/excitation source and sampling accessories.
Ocean Optics has developed an innovative line of modular fibre optic components and systems that can be used to monitor oxygen in biological samples, headspace gases, slurries, cosmetics, foods and gases, and pH in solution.
Optical sensing has several advantages over other detection techniques.
Optical sensors consume no oxygen, can be used for real-time, in situ monitoring, and require minimal sample preparation.
They are immune to EMI and to interference from various chemicals and gases, can be used in environments including viscous samples or hazardous and explosive settings, and multi-wavelength optical sensing is more reliable than single-parameter methods.
The Ocean Optics Sensors Division developed the line of Foxy fibre optic oxygen sensors and pH optical sensors, and created sensor technologies including sol gels (fabricated ceramic and glass materials) and fluorescence- and absorbance-based indicators.
Ocean Optics offers a full line of complementary technologies that an OEM or developer can integrate into their optical sensing systems, including miniature fibre optic spectrometers, optical sensor probes, excitation sources, optical fibre assemblies, sampling optics and software.
