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A Remote Fiber Optic Raman Sensor For Rapid And Nondestructive Foodborne Pathogen Detection
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
  • Bohong Zhang
  • Md Asad Rahman
  • Jinling Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Qingbo Yang
  • Jie Huang, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Food quality and safety have been critical issues in the world. There is an urgent need for a fast, simple, selective, and inexpensive food detection method for the identification of the degree of food spoilage. As a molecular analysis tool, Raman spectroscopy has the advantages of high selectivity, accurate analysis, simple operation, and low sample consumption. This paper reports a novel remote fiber optic Raman sensor for real-time application in food spoilage detection. Eight volatile organic compounds (VOC) liquids that typically generated by corrupted food were under-tested. The proposed sensor successfully captures the back-scattered Raman spectra for all testing samples with various dilution levels. Multiple machine learning algorithms are also applied to further analyze the correlation between Raman spectra and molecules in spoiled foods by diluting chemical samples. As a result of combining with Raman spectroscopy and machine learning algorithm, the remote fiber optic Raman probe allows qualitative measurements of VOC samples at 100-fold dilution. In comparison with surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), the remote fiber optic Raman sensor allows for direct Raman spectroscopy detection without sample and SERS substrate preparation, which opens a new chapter on the nondestructive and sensitive detection of food analytes.

Department(s)
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Second Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Fiber optic sensor,
  • foodborne pathogen,
  • in situ Raman,
  • machine learning,
  • Raman spectroscopy,
  • real-time measurement,
  • remote sensing,
  • volatile organic compounds (VOC) liquid
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-151066178-3
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Publication Date
01 Jan 2023
Citation Information
Bohong Zhang, Md Asad Rahman, Jinling Liu, Qingbo Yang, et al.. "A Remote Fiber Optic Raman Sensor For Rapid And Nondestructive Foodborne Pathogen Detection" Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 12532 (2023) ISSN: 1996-756X; 0277-786X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jinling-liu/19/