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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2009, Article ID 398403, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2009/398403 Research Article Remote System for Detection of Low-Levels of Methane Based on Photonic Crystal Fibres and Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy 1, 2 3 3 ˜ 1, 4 5 J. P. Carvalho, H. Lehmann, H. Bartelt, F. Magalhaes, R. Amezcua-Correa, 1, 2 6 ´ 1 1 5 J. L. Santos, J. Van Roosbroeck, F. M. Araujo, L. A. Ferreira, and J. C. Knight 1 INESC Porto, Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal 2 Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal 3 IPHT, Albert Einstein Straße 9, 07745 Jena, Germany 4 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-065 Porto, Portugal 5 Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK 6 FOSS, Cipalstraat 14, B-2440 Geel, Belgium Correspondence should be addressed to J. P. Carvalho, joel.carvalho@inescporto.pt Received 6 March 2009; Accepted 22 June 2009 Recommended by Valerio Pruneri In this work we described an optical fibre sensing system for detecting low levels of methane. The properties of hollow-core photonic crystal fibres are explored to have a sensing head with favourable characteristics for gas sensing, particularly in what concerns intrinsic readout sensitivity and gas diffusion time in the sensing stru