This reference presents a comprehensive account of the recent advances and research in fiber optic sensor technology. It offers a progressive history of each sensor type as well as basic principles and fundamental building blocks for practical applications in the electrical aerospace, defense and manufacturing, smart structure, undersea surveillance, medical, and gas and oil industries. Fiber Optic Sensors highlights the development of fiber optic sensors and classic applications; provides new methods for the construction of high-speed and high-capacity fiber sensor systems; and describes recent developments in fiber optic amplifiers, fiber Bragg grating sensors, optical isolators, optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR), and fiber optic gyroscopes. The book details structural fatigue monitoring for dams and bridges, the effect of external and environmental factors on fiber optic sensor performance, interferometer configuration multiplexing architecture, polarization fading mitigation, and system integration, and updated applications of fiber optic sensors.
Author(s): Francis T.S. Yu, Shizhuo Yin
Series: Optical engineering 76
Edition: 1
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 509
City: New York
Preface......Page 8
Contents......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Overview of Fiber Optic Sensors......Page 16
Fiber Optic Sensors Based upon the Fabry–Perot Interferometer......Page 56
Polarimetric Optical Fiber Sensors......Page 90
In-Fiber Grating Optic Sensors......Page 138
Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors......Page 198
Fiber Specklegram Sensors......Page 250
Interrogation Techniques for Fiber Grating Sensors and the Theory of Fiber Gratings......Page 310
Fiber Gyroscope Sensors......Page 398
Optical Fiber Hydrophone Systems......Page 432
Applications of Fiber Optic Sensors......Page 464
Index......Page 506
