Optical Fiber Element of Sensors with Biolumiscent Cells

In this work, we compared theoretical calculations [2] of coupling efficiency with experiments for various OFEs with the immobilized whole-cell bacterial bioreporter of Pseudomonas fluorescens HK44 (producing bioluminescence in presence of naphthalene and salicylate). We evaluated the influence of the physical properties and geometry of the OFE, active layer and cell immobilization techniques on intensity of detected light