JURDYC , Anne-Marie

Against threats to populations by water pollution, it is critical to remotely, continuously and unambiguously identify and quantify pollutants in surface and ground water. This fast evolving field shall benefit increasingly from optical technologies. We propose a tentative review of the state of art and some promising ideas.

In rare-earth-doped silica optical fibres, the homogeneous distribution of amplifying ions and part of their spectroscopic properties are usually improved by adding selected elements, such as phosphorus or aluminum, as structural modifier. In erbium ion (Er3+) doped fibres, phosphorus preferentially coordinates to Er3+ ions to form regular...

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Arsenic (As) is one of the most toxic contaminants found in the environment and especially in water. The World Health Organization decrees an As concentration less than 10 µg/L (10ppb). Established laboratory method is mass spectrometry. This technique is costly and time-intensive [1]. Other methods for As detection in water are in state of...