CN220795008U - Micro-bubble lens sensing chip for detecting liquid concentration and detection system - Google Patents
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The utility model belongs to the technical field of optical sensors, and particularly relates to a micro-bubble lens sensing chip for detecting liquid concentration and a detection system. The sensing chip comprises a quartz capillary tube with microbubbles in the middle, a single-mode fiber, a sensor packaging bracket and a cover glass; the microbubbles are hollow structures; the end face of the single-mode fiber is flat, the fiber core of the fiber is vertically aligned with the sphere center of the microbubble, and the distance between the end face of the fiber and the microbubble is the focal length of the microbubble lens; the sensor packaging bracket is used for fixing the capillary quartz tube and the single-mode optical fiber; the cover glass is covered on the packaging bracket. The utility model realizes the collimation of the output light spot of the single-mode fiber based on the lens effect of the microbubble, when the concentration of the solution in the microbubble is changed, the focal length of the microbubble lens is changed, and the concentration of the solution in the microbubble can be measured by measuring the size of the output collimation light spot; the sensing chip has the advantages of simple structure, convenient preparation and high recycling rate. A liquid concentration detection system based on the sensing chip is also included.
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Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of optical sensors, and particularly relates to a micro-bubble lens sensing chip for detecting liquid concentration and a detection system.
Background
Common liquid concentration detection technologies include liquid chromatography, absorption spectroscopy, optical fiber interferometers, optical microcavity sensors and the like, and although the sensing technologies based on the optical principle have the advantages of rapid real-time detection, non-destructive property, strong electromagnetic interference resistance and the like, most of the above technologies still need complex detection systems or detection instruments, such as optical fiber interferometers, which need tunable lasers or broad-spectrum coherent light sources, absorption spectroscopy requires not only a spectrum analyzer, but also a laser with stable output light intensity and the like, so that the existing various liquid concentration detection instruments are huge in volume and expensive.
The micro lens is widely applied to the technologies of beam shaping, imaging, beam shrinking, beam expanding, optical tweezers and the like at present, and few technologies for detecting the concentration of liquid by monitoring the size of an output light spot of the micro lens are reported. A tunable focal length microlens is susceptible to lens size or lens contrast relative to ambient refractive index due to its focusing properties, based on which some physical parameter, such as ambient refractive index or lens' own refractive index, can be detected by monitoring the size of the output spot. The refractive index and the concentration of the liquid are in a linear relation under most conditions, so that the measurement of the concentration of the liquid can be realized by monitoring the size of the output light spot of the lens in real time, the requirements on a complex light source and a detector are overcome, and the volume of the sensor can be greatly reduced.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to provide a micro-bubble lens sensing chip capable of realizing low-cost, portable and real-time liquid concentration detection, and further provides a real-time liquid concentration (such as alcohol concentration and sugar concentration) detection system based on the micro-bubble lens sensing chip.
The structure of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip for detecting the concentration of liquid (such as alcohol concentration and sugar concentration) is shown in the figure 1 (i); comprising the following steps: a quartz capillary 1 with microbubbles 6 at the middle part, a single-mode fiber 2, a sensor packaging bracket 3 and a cover glass 5; wherein:
the microbubbles 6 are hollow structures, and when the interior of the microbubbles is filled with liquid, ball lenses are formed;
the end face of the single-mode optical fiber 2 is flat; one end of the single-mode fiber is connected with an external laser and is used for guiding light into the single-mode fiber, and the other end outputs the light and irradiates the surface of the microbubble 6;
the fiber core of the single-mode fiber 2 is vertically aligned with the spherical center of the quartz micro-bubble spherical lens, and the distance between the output end face of the single-mode fiber 2 and the quartz micro-bubble spherical lens is the focal length of the micro-bubble spherical lens;
the microbubble 6 is vertically arranged with the single-mode fiber 2, the sphere center of the microbubble 6 coincides with the fiber core of the single-mode fiber 2, and the light output by the single-mode fiber 2 is collimated parallel light after passing through the microbubble lens;
the sensor packaging bracket 3 is formed by splicing glass or is prepared by 3D printing and is used for fixing the quartz capillary 1 and the single-mode optical fiber 2 with the microbubble 6 prepared in the middle so as to ensure that the relative positions of the quartz capillary 1 and the single-mode optical fiber cannot deviate;
the cover glass 5 is covered on the sensor packaging bracket 3 and is used for protecting the relative positions of the quartz microbubbles 6 and the single-mode optical fibers 2 of the sensor core device from being disturbed;
the quartz capillary 1 (namely, at the left side and the right side of the microbubble 6) is provided with two ends which are opened, one end is connected with an external micro-fluidic system through a Teflon tube, and the other end is connected with an analyte to be detected through the Teflon tube.
In the present utility model, the diameter of the quartz capillary 1 is 50-1000 μm.
In the utility model, the diameter of the quartz microbubbles 6 is 100-2000 μm, the wall thickness is 5-15 μm, and the shape of the microbubbles is spherical.
In the present utility model, the material of the quartz capillary 1 is preferably silica.
In the utility model, the fiber core diameter of the single-mode fiber 2 is 4-10 mu m; the optical wavelength transmission range of the single-mode optical fiber 2 is 380-780 nm.
In the utility model, the Gaussian light spot with the light spot diameter of 4-10 mu m output by the fiber core of the single-mode fiber 2 can be regarded as an ideal point light source relative to a quartz micro-bubble lens.
In the utility model, the sensor packaging support is used for fixing a single-mode optical fiber 2 through a convex platform and fixing quartz microbubbles 6 through a glass groove.
In the utility model, the quartz microbubbles 6 and the single-mode fiber are fixed on the sensor packaging bracket 3 through the ultraviolet glue 4; wherein capillary quartz tubes on two sides of the quartz microbubbles are fixed in glass grooves on the sensor packaging support frame 3 through ultraviolet glue; the end face end of the single-mode fiber 2 is suspended in the air for 2-10mm in length, and the rest parts are fixed on a glass boss of the sensor packaging support frame 3 through ultraviolet glue.
In the utility model, a transparent cover glass 5 is covered on the sensor packaging support, and the transparent cover glass is used for protecting the relative positions of the quartz microbubbles and the single-mode optical fibers of the sensor core device from being disturbed.
In the utility model, when the concentration of the liquid in the quartz micro bubble 6 is different, the effective refractive index of the quartz micro bubble lens is changed, so that the focusing performance of the micro bubble is changed, and the collimation effect of the light output by the end face 11 of the single-mode fiber after passing through the quartz micro bubble lens is changed, as shown in fig. 1 (ii); wherein:
when the concentration of the liquid in the micro-bubble lens is 9, the micro-bubble lens has longer focal length, small numerical aperture, weak collection capability on incident light and small spot pixel number detected by the CCD imaging device 16 detection end face 12;
when the liquid concentration in the micro-bubble lens is 10 high, the micro-bubble lens has short focal length, large numerical aperture, strong collection capability on incident light and large spot pixel number detected by the CCD imaging device 16 detection end face 12.
Here, the concentration is high, low, the focal length is long, short, the aperture is large, small, the spot pixel number is large, small, all are comparable.
The micro-bubble lens sensing chip provided by the utility model can be used for detecting the concentration of liquid (such as alcohol concentration and sugar concentration). When the liquid concentration detection device is used for detecting, the liquid concentration can be rapidly and quantitatively detected in real time based on an optical means by combining the measurement of the size of the collimation light spots by the CCD imaging device according to the refraction effect of the detection objects with different concentrations on light.
The utility model also provides a preparation method of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip, as shown in fig. 2, comprising the following specific steps:
(1) Selecting a section of capillary quartz microtube, and preparing spherical microbubbles on the capillary quartz microtube in a melting and blowing mode, wherein the number of the microbubbles is 1;
(2) The sensor package support 3 is assembled by glass sheets or prepared by a 3D printing technology;
(3) Cleaning the end face of the single-mode fiber, cutting the end face of the single-mode fiber to be smooth by using a fiber cutter, and horizontally fixing the end face of the single-mode fiber on a boss of a sensor packaging bracket by using ultraviolet glue to ensure that the end face of the single-mode fiber is suspended in the air for a length of 2-10 mm;
(4) The pitch angle of the quartz microbubbles is adjusted by utilizing a five-dimensional adjusting frame, so that the microbubbles (axle centers) are ensured to be vertically placed with the single-mode optical fibers, then the positions of the microbubbles are adjusted along the plane vertical to the optical axis, the spherical centers of the microbubbles are ensured to coincide with the fiber cores of the single-mode optical fibers, and finally the positions of the microbubbles are adjusted along the direction of the optical axis, so that the light output by the single-mode optical fibers is ensured to be collimated parallel light after passing through the microbubble lenses;
(5) Utilizing ultraviolet glue to fix capillary quartz tubes at two ends of a quartz micro-bubble lens in grooves of a sensor packaging bracket;
(6) Covering a cover glass on the surface of the sensor packaging bracket to protect the relative positions of the micro-bubble lens and the single-mode optical fiber from being disturbed by environmental disturbance;
(7) And the two ends of the capillary quartz microtube are connected with the Teflon tube for being connected with a microfluidic system, so that the liquid to be measured is extracted.
The utility model realizes the collimation of the output light spot of the single-mode fiber based on the lens effect of the microbubble, when the concentration of the solution in the microbubble is changed, the focal length of the microbubble lens is changed, and the concentration of the solution in the microbubble can be measured by measuring the size of the output collimation light spot; the sensor chip realizes the measurement of the concentration of liquid by changing the focusing performance of the lens, and simultaneously combines the hollow structure of the microbubbles to enable the light to fully interact with substances so as to realize the detection of trace and trace liquid analytes. The sensing chip has the advantages of simple structure, convenient preparation and high recycling rate.
The utility model also provides application of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip, namely a system for constructing detection of liquid concentration (such as alcohol concentration and sugar concentration), as shown in fig. 3, the detection system comprises: the device comprises a single-frequency laser 13, an optical fiber jumper 14, a micro-bubble lens sensing chip 15, a CCD imaging device 16, a computer 17 and a micro-fluidic system 18 which are connected in sequence; wherein:
the single-frequency laser 13 is used for emitting monochromatic detection laser;
the optical fiber jumper 14 is used for transmitting monochromatic laser output by the single-frequency laser to a single-mode optical fiber of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip 15, wherein the optical fiber jumper 14 and the single-mode optical fiber 2 are connected together through an optical fiber flange;
in the micro-bubble lens sensing chip 15, one end of the capillary quartz tube 1 is connected with the micro-fluidic system 18, and the other end is connected with an analyte to be detected through a Teflon tube; the divergent light output by the end face of the single-mode fiber 2 passes through the quartz micro bubble lens 1 and is shaped into collimated parallel light to be transmitted to the far-end CCD imaging device 16;
the CCD imaging device 16 receives the output optical signal and converts the output optical signal into an electrical signal to be transmitted to the computer 17;
the computer 17 is used for displaying the size of the light spot in real time and carrying out real-time processing analysis on the size of the light spot or the pixel point of the light spot;
the microfluidic system 18 includes a syringe pump, a syringe, and a teflon tube for extracting the analyte to be measured into a quartz micro-bubble lens.
The detection flow of the detection system is that a single-frequency laser is started to emit detection monochromatic laser; the method comprises the steps of extracting an analyte to be detected by using a microfluidic system (comprising a syringe pump, a syringe and a Teflon tube) and entering the micro-bubble, wherein one end of the microfluidic system is connected with one port of the quartz micro-bubble, and the other port of the quartz micro-bubble is connected with a test tube filled with the analyte to be detected through the Teflon tube; collecting the collimated light spots output by the micro-bubble lens sensing chip by adopting a CCD imaging device, converting the collimated light spots into electric signals and transmitting the electric signals to a computer; and (3) carrying out statistical analysis on the size of the light spot or the pixel point by using a computer, measuring the concentration of a plurality of groups of standard analytes to be measured, fitting a calibration curve, and finishing the sensing performance calibration of the liquid concentration sensor.
The technical principle realized by the utility model is as follows: the quartz micro-bubble is of a spherical hollow structure, so that when the quartz micro-bubble is filled with liquid, the effective refractive index of the quartz micro-bubble is higher than that of air, and the quartz micro-bubble is equivalent to a spherical micro-lens; when the concentration of liquid in the quartz micro-bubble is changed, the effective refractive index of the quartz micro-bubble lens is changed, so that the focusing performance of the micro-bubble is changed, and the collimation effect of divergent light output by the end face of the single-mode fiber after passing through the lens is also changed; wherein: when the concentration of the liquid in the micro-bubble lens is low, the focal length of the micro-bubble is longer, the numerical aperture is small, the collection capability of incident light is weak, and the number of spot pixels detected by a CCD imaging device is small; when the concentration of the liquid in the micro-bubble lens is high, the focal length of the micro-bubble is short, the numerical aperture is large, the collection capability of incident light is strong, and the number of spot pixels detected by the CCD imaging device is large; therefore, the concentration of the liquid introduced into the quartz microbubbles can be detected by detecting the number of the collimation light spot pixels detected by the CCD imaging device.
The utility model has the following characteristics:
(1) The utility model is significantly different from the traditional liquid sensor; the utility model realizes the sensing of the liquid concentration based on the lens effect of the microbubbles without complex and expensive excitation light (such as a tunable laser) or a detector (a spectrum analyzer), can detect the liquid concentration by detecting the size of a collimation light spot, and has low requirement on the stability of the light source intensity; the hollow structure of the micro-bubble can flexibly change the concentration of liquid in the micro-bubble, and meanwhile, the focusing performance of the quartz micro-bubble is changed;
(2) The utility model has important differences from the traditional micro lens; the quartz micro-bubble lens in the utility model is of a hollow structure, while the traditional micro-lens is of a solid structure;
(3) The utility model has important differences from the traditional micro lens; the quartz micro-bubble lens in the utility model is a lens with tunable focusing performance, while most of the traditional micro-lenses are not tunable in focusing performance;
(4) The utility model has important differences from the traditional micro lens; the quartz micro-bubble lens is prepared on a capillary quartz tube in a heating and blowing mode, only one optical fiber fusion splicer is needed, the preparation method is simple, the surface roughness is low, and the preparation method is superior to the traditional micro-lens preparation process;
(5) The micro bubble lens provided by the utility model is a micro lens with a micro flow channel, and can simultaneously realize the convergence of incident light and the transmission of liquid analytes;
(6) The micro-bubble lens sensing chip provided by the utility model integrates the micro-bubble lens and the single-mode fiber, and the micro-bubble lens is used for collimating divergent light output by the single-mode fiber, so that the measurement of the size of a collimating light spot at a far end is realized;
(7) The spherical center of the quartz microbubble in the microbubble lens sensing chip is vertically aligned with the fiber core of the single-mode fiber, the relative positions of the spherical center of the quartz microbubble and the fiber core are the focal length of the microbubble lens, and the spherical center and the fiber core are fixed on the sensor packaging bracket through ultraviolet glue, so that the robustness is high;
(8) The sensing chip provided by the utility model has the advantages of simple structure, convenience in preparation and high repeated utilization rate;
(9) The sensing chip detection system provided by the utility model is easy to build, is highly integrated, has a simple detection method and low cost, and is convenient for practical application.
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FIG. 1 (i) is a schematic diagram of the structure of a micro-bubble lens sensor chip of the present utility model; FIG. 1 (ii) is a schematic diagram of a micro bubble lens sensor chip of the present utility model.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the fabrication of a micro-bubble lens sensor chip of the present utility model. The processes (i) - (vi) are in turn: self-made glass bracket, packaging single-mode optical fiber, filling ultraviolet glue, adjusting the pitch angle of microbubbles, packaging microbubbles and covering glass.
FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of a detection system for a micro-bubble lens sensor chip of the present utility model.
Reference numerals in the drawings: 1 is a quartz capillary; 2 is a single mode optical fiber; 3 is a sensor packaging bracket; 4 is ultraviolet glue; 5 is a cover glass, 6 is quartz microbubbles; 7 is a hollow channel of a capillary quartz tube; 8 is the wall of the capillary quartz tube; 9 is a low-concentration liquid; 10 is a high concentration liquid; 11 is a single-mode optical fiber end face; 12 is the detection end face of the CCD imaging device; 13 is a single frequency laser; 14 is an optical fiber jumper; 15 is a micro-bubble lens sensing chip; 16 is a CCD imaging device; 17 is a computer; 18 is a microfluidic system.
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The utility model is described in further detail below with reference to the drawings and examples, to which the utility model is not limited.
Example 1
In this embodiment, the micro-bubble lens sensor chip (see fig. 1) specifically includes: a capillary quartz tube prepared with microbubbles, a single-mode fiber, a sensor packaging bracket and a cover glass; the microbubbles are hollow structures, and when the interior of the microbubbles is filled with liquid, ball lenses are formed; the end face of the single-mode fiber is flat, one end of the single-mode fiber can be connected with the laser and used for guiding light into the single-mode fiber, and the other end outputs the light and irradiates the surface of the microbubble; the sensor packaging bracket is prepared by glass splicing or 3D printing and is used for fixing a capillary quartz tube and a single-mode optical fiber which are prepared with microbubbles and ensuring that the relative positions of the capillary quartz tube and the single-mode optical fiber cannot deviate; the cover glass is used for further protecting the quartz microbubbles and the single-mode fibers from being disturbed by the surrounding environment; the two ends of the capillary quartz tube are open, one end of the capillary quartz tube can be connected with the microfluidic system through the Teflon tube, and the other end of the capillary quartz tube can be connected with an analyte to be detected through the Teflon tube; the quartz microbubbles had a diameter of about 370 μm and a wall thickness of 10 μm and were spherical in shape.
In the device, a preparation flow (see fig. 2) of a micro-bubble lens sensing chip is provided, which comprises the following steps:
(1) Selecting a section of capillary quartz microtube, and preparing spherical microbubbles on the capillary quartz microtube in a melting and blowing mode, wherein the number of the microbubbles is 1;
(2) Preparing a sensor packaging bracket by assembling glass sheets or 3D printing technology;
(3) Cleaning the end face of the single-mode fiber, cutting the end face of the single-mode fiber to be smooth by using a fiber cutter, and horizontally fixing the end face of the single-mode fiber on a boss of a sensor packaging bracket by using ultraviolet glue to ensure that the end face of the single-mode fiber is suspended in the air for 2-10 mm;
(4) The pitch angle of the quartz microbubbles is adjusted by utilizing a five-dimensional adjusting frame, so that the microbubbles are ensured to be vertically placed with the single-mode optical fiber, then the positions of the microbubbles are adjusted along the plane vertical to the optical axis, the spherical centers of the microbubbles are ensured to coincide with the fiber cores of the single-mode optical fiber, and finally the positions of the microbubbles are adjusted along the direction of the optical axis, so that the light output by the single-mode optical fiber is ensured to be collimated parallel light after passing through the microbubble lens;
(5) Utilizing ultraviolet glue to fix capillary quartz tubes at two ends of a quartz micro-bubble lens in grooves of a sensor packaging bracket;
(6) Covering a cover glass on the surface of the sensor packaging bracket to protect the relative positions of the micro-bubble lens and the single-mode optical fiber from being disturbed by environmental disturbance;
(7) And the two ends of the capillary quartz microtube are connected with the Teflon tube for being connected with a microfluidic system, so that the liquid to be measured is extracted.
In the device, a detection method of a micro-bubble lens sensing chip is provided. Connecting single-frequency output laser with a single-mode fiber of a micro-bubble lens sensing chip through an optical fiber flange, adjusting the relative position of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip and a CCD imaging device, ensuring that a light spot output by a micro-bubble lens is imaged at the center of a pixel unit of the CCD imaging device, and fixing the relative position of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip and the CCD imaging device; deionized water is introduced into the quartz microbubbles by using a syringe and a teflon tube, and then the output light spots detected by the CCD imaging device are displayed by a computer.
Example 2
The embodiment also provides a detection system of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip, as shown in fig. 3. Starting a single-frequency laser to emit single-color detection laser; the method comprises the steps of extracting an analyte to be detected by using a microfluidic system (comprising a syringe pump, a syringe and a Teflon tube) and entering the micro-bubble, wherein one end of the microfluidic system is connected with one port of the quartz micro-bubble, and the other port of the quartz micro-bubble is connected with a test tube filled with the analyte to be detected through the Teflon tube; collecting the collimated light spots output by the micro-bubble lens sensing chip by adopting a CCD imaging device, converting the collimated light spots into electric signals and transmitting the electric signals to a computer; and (3) carrying out statistical analysis on the size of the light spot or the pixel point by using a computer, measuring the concentration of a plurality of groups of standard analytes to be measured, fitting a calibration curve, and finishing the sensing performance calibration of the liquid concentration sensor.
Based on the detection system of the micro-bubble lens sensor chip and with the combination of the structural parameters of the embodiment 1, the standard alcohol solution concentration of the micro-bubble lens sensor chip is measured in the embodiment. In the actual test, alcohol solutions with different concentrations are sequentially introduced into the quartz microbubbles through the injector, calculation and analysis are synchronously carried out on the facula pixel points collected by the CCD imaging device, and finally, the test result shown by the black circle is obtained. The results show that as the alcohol concentration increases, the collection or collimation effect on the incident light is further enhanced due to the enhanced focusing performance of the micro-bubble lens, and finally the spot pixel detected on the CCD imaging device increases. Further by fitting the tested data points, a scaled fit curve is obtained. In the subsequent practical process, inversion measurement of different alcohol concentrations can be performed only by the calibration fitting curve.
Based on the above-described alcohol concentration calibration curve, an actual test was performed on any alcohol concentration in this example. The method is characterized in that the standard alcohol concentration refractometer and the micro-bubble lens sensing chip are used for carrying out actual detection on any alcohol concentration, and the detection result shows that the alcohol concentration detected by the micro-bubble lens sensing chip is close to the result tested by the standard alcohol concentration refractometer, and the detection error is smaller than 0.2%, so that the method can accurately detect alcohol samples with any concentration in real time.
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1. A micro-bubble lens sensor chip for liquid concentration detection, comprising: a quartz capillary tube (1) with microbubbles (6) in the middle, a single mode fiber (2), a sensor packaging bracket (3) and a cover glass (5); wherein:
the microbubbles (6) are hollow structures, and when the interior of the microbubbles is filled with liquid, ball lenses are formed;
the end face of the single-mode optical fiber (2) is flat; one end of the single-mode fiber is connected with an external laser and is used for guiding light into the single-mode fiber, and the other end outputs the light and irradiates the surface of the microbubble (6);
the fiber core of the single-mode fiber (2) is vertically aligned with the spherical center of the quartz micro-bubble spherical lens, and the distance between the output end surface of the single-mode fiber (2) and the quartz micro-bubble spherical lens is the focal length of the micro-bubble spherical lens;
the microbubble (6) is vertically arranged with the single-mode fiber (2), the sphere center of the microbubble (6) is overlapped with the fiber core of the single-mode fiber (2), and the light output by the single-mode fiber (2) is collimated parallel light after passing through the microbubble lens;
the sensor packaging bracket (3) is used for fixing the quartz capillary tube (1) with the microbubble (6) prepared in the middle and the single-mode optical fiber (2) so as to ensure that the relative positions of the quartz capillary tube and the single-mode optical fiber cannot deviate;
the cover glass (5) is covered on the sensor packaging bracket (3) and is used for protecting the relative positions of the quartz microbubbles (6) and the single-mode fibers (2) of the sensor core device from being disturbed;
and two ends of the quartz capillary tube (1) are opened, one end of the quartz capillary tube is connected with an external microfluidic system through a Teflon tube, and the other end of the quartz capillary tube is connected with an analyte to be detected through the Teflon tube.
2. The micro bubble lens sensor chip for liquid concentration detection according to claim 1, wherein the diameter of the quartz capillary tube (1) with micro bubbles (6) in between is 50-1000 μm; the diameter of the quartz microbubbles (6) is 100-2000 mu m, the wall thickness is 5-15 mu m, and the shape of the microbubbles is spherical.
3. The micro bubble lens sensor chip for liquid concentration detection according to claim 1, wherein the fiber core diameter of the single mode fiber (2) is 4-10 μm; visible light with the wavelength transmission range of 380-780 nm;
the Gaussian light spot with the light spot diameter of 4-10 mu m is output by the fiber core of the single-mode fiber (2), and is a point light source relative to a quartz micro-bubble lens.
4. The micro bubble lens sensor chip for liquid concentration detection according to claim 1, wherein the sensor package holder (3) fixes the single mode fiber (2) through one boss and fixes the quartz micro bubble (6) through one glass groove.
5. The micro-bubble lens sensing chip for liquid concentration detection according to claim 1, wherein the quartz micro-bubble (6) and the single-mode optical fiber (2) are fixed on the sensor packaging bracket (3) through ultraviolet glue (4); wherein quartz capillaries (1) on two sides of the quartz microbubbles (6) are fixed in glass grooves on the sensor packaging bracket (3) through ultraviolet glue; the end face end of the single-mode fiber (2) is suspended for 2-10mm, and the rest parts are fixed on a glass boss of the sensor packaging bracket (3) through ultraviolet glue.
6. A detection system based on the micro bubble lens sensor chip for liquid concentration detection according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized by comprising: the device comprises a single-frequency laser (13), an optical fiber jumper (14), a micro-bubble lens sensing chip (15), a CCD imaging device (16), a computer (17) and a micro-fluidic system (18) which are connected in sequence; wherein:
the single-frequency laser (13) is used for emitting single-color detection laser;
the optical fiber jumper (14) is used for transmitting monochromatic laser output by the single-frequency laser into a single-mode optical fiber of the micro-bubble lens sensing chip (15), and the optical fiber jumper (14) and the single-mode optical fiber (2) are connected together through an optical fiber flange;
in the micro-bubble lens sensing chip (15), one end of a quartz capillary tube (1) is connected with a micro-fluidic system (18), and the other end of the quartz capillary tube is connected with an analyte to be detected through a Teflon tube; the divergent light output by the end face of the single-mode fiber (2) passes through the quartz capillary (1) and is shaped into collimated parallel light to be transmitted to a far-end CCD imaging device (16);
the CCD imaging device (16) receives the output optical signal and converts the output optical signal into an electric signal to be transmitted to a computer (17);
the computer (17) is used for displaying the size of the light spot in real time and carrying out real-time processing analysis on the light spot size or the light spot pixel point;
the microfluidic system (18) includes a syringe pump, a syringe, and a teflon tube for extracting an analyte to be measured into a quartz micro-bubble lens.
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