RT Journal Article T1 Microfiber as light source for exciting fluorescence in a polymer optical fiber A1 Rodriguez Schwendtner, E. A1 Navarrete Fernández, María Cruz A1 Díaz Herrera, Natalia A1 Esteban Martínez, Óscar A1 González Cano, Agustín AB We present a new technique for exciting and collecting fluorescence with all-fiber devices, consisting of two different tapered fibers, a microfiber used as illuminating source and a polymer optical fiber where a fluorophore has been deposited and where the fluorescence takes place. We depict the fabrication of the device, characterize its performance and show the feasibility of our approach, the good performance obtained and the possibility of using the flexibility of the illuminating fiber to increase this performance and the compactness of the device. PB Elsevier Science S A SN 0925-4005 YR 2016 FD 2016-02 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23414 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23414 LA eng NO Received 12 June 2015, Revised 10 September 2015, Accepted 11 September 2015, Available online 14 September 2015. NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) NO Comunidad de Madrid NO European Project ECOAL-MGT (Ecological Management of Coal Piles in Combustion) DS Docta Complutense RD 17 may 2024