Quantitative sensitivity analysis of surface attached optical fiber strain sensor [PDF]
, 2014 Optical fiber strain sensors, in particular, the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) type, are widely applied in different applications. The most common installation method is surface-attached.
Wan, KT
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Performance Analysis of a Noncontact Plastic Fiber Optical Fiber Displacement Sensor with Compensation of Target Reflectivity [PDF]
, 2013 An inexpensive fiber-based noncontact distance sensor specific for monitoring short-range displacements in micromachining applications is presented. To keep the overall costs low, the sensor uses plastic optical fibers and an intensiometric approach ...
Alberto Vallan +8 more
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Optical Gas Sensor Fabrication Based on Porphyrin-Anchored Electrostatic Self-Assembly onto Tapered Optical Fibers [PDF]
, 2012 Tapered optical fibers with nano-assembled coatings of thicknesses of order tens of nanometres were used for the detection of ammonia gas. The film coating was composed of alternate layers of tetrakis-(4-sulfophenyl) porphine (TSPP) and poly(allylamine ...
Lee, Seung-Woo +5 more
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Multi-sensor system using plastic optical fibers for intrinsically safe level measurements [PDF]
, 2004 A system for measuring liquid level in multiple tanks using optical fibe technology has been developed. Oil fiel service industry or any sector requiring liquid level measurements in flammabl atmospheres can be benefite from this intrinsically safe ...
Gonzalo, Ana B. +3 more
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Optical fiber sensing based on reflection laser spectroscopy [PDF]
, 2010 An overview on high-resolution and fast interrogation of optical-fiber sensors relying on laser reflection spectroscopy is given. Fiber Bragg-gratings (FBGs) and FBG resonators built in fibers of different types are used for strain, temperature and ...
De Natale, Paolo +34 more
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Optical router for optical fiber sensor networks based on a liquid crystal cell [PDF]
, 2003 Optical fiber sensor networks are evolving rapidly. They are used because of the inert nature of optical fibers allowing no electromagnetic interference and safe applications in inflammable atmospheres; other relevant characteristics are their low ...
Sánchez-Pena, José Manuel +4 more
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Fiber-optic chemical sensing with Langmuir-Blodgett overlay waveguides [PDF]
, 1999 Fiber-optic chemical sensing has been demonstrated with a side-polished single- mode optical fiber, evanescently coupled to chemically sensitive Langmuir- Blodgett (LB) overlay waveguides.
Tatam, Ralph P. +3 more
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A Hybrid Optical Fiber and FSO System for Bidirectional Communications Used in Bridges [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, a 10-Gb/s hybrid optical fiber (OF) and free-space optics (FSO) link as part of a bidirectional long-haul OF transmission for application in outdoor environments such as bridges is proposed.
Ghassemlooy, Zabih +4 more
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Efficient fiber Bragg grating and fiber Fabry-Pe'rot sensor multiplexing scheme using a broadband pulsed mode-locked laser [PDF]
, 2005 A pulsed broadband mode-locked laser (MLL) combined with interferometric interrogation is shown to yield an efficient means of multiplexing a large number of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) or fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) strain sensors with high performance ...
Flockhart, G M H +2 more
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Photonic crystal fiber half-taper probe based refractometer [PDF]
, 2014 A compact singlemode - photonic crystal fiber - singlemode fiber tip (SPST) refractive index sensor is demonstrated in this paper. A CO2 laser cleaving technique is utilised to provide a clean-cut fiber tip which is then coated by a layer of gold to ...
Bo, Lin +8 more
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