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A Review of Coating Materials Used to Improve the Performance of Optical Fiber Sensors
Sensors, 2020 In order to improve the performance of fiber sensors and fully tap the potential of optical fiber sensors, various optical materials have been selectively coated on optical fiber sensors under the background of the rapid development of various optical ...
Changxu Li +7 more
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Fiber-Optic Chemical Sensors and Fiber-Optic Bio-Sensors [PDF]
Sensors, 2015 This review summarizes principles and current stage of development of fiber-optic chemical sensors (FOCS) and biosensors (FOBS). Fiber optic sensor (FOS) systems use the ability of optical fibers (OF) to guide the light in the spectral range from ultraviolet (UV) (180 nm) up to middle infrared (IR) (10 μm) and modulation of guided light by the ...
Marie Pospísilová +2 more
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Optical Fiber Networks for Remote Fiber Optic Sensors [PDF]
Sensors, 2012 This paper presents an overview of optical fiber sensor networks for remote sensing. Firstly, the state of the art of remote fiber sensor systems has been considered. We have summarized the great evolution of these systems in recent years; this progress confirms that fiber-optic remote sensing is a promising technology with a wide field of practical ...
Montserrat Fernandez-Vallejo +1 more
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Interferometric Fiber Optic Sensors [PDF]
Sensors, 2012 Fiber optic interferometers to sense various physical parameters including temperature, strain, pressure, and refractive index have been widely investigated. They can be categorized into four types: Fabry-Perot, Mach-Zehnder, Michelson, and Sagnac.
Byeong Ha Lee +6 more
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Microbend fiber-optic sensor [PDF]
Applied Optics, 1984 Intensity modulation induced by microbending in multimode fibers is considered as a transduction mechanism for detecting environmental changes such as pressure, temperature, acceleration, and magnetic and electric fields. A generic microbend sensor has been defined and studied, and its components, such as sensing fiber, light source, optical fiber ...
N, Lagakos, J H, Cole, J A, Bucaro
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Fabry–Perot Cavity Optimization for Absolute Strain Sensing Using Finite Element Analysis
Sensors, 2023 The finite element method (FEM) was used to investigate the optical–mechanical behavior of a Fabry–Perot Interferometer (FPI) composed of a capillary segment spliced between two sections of standard optical fiber. The developed FEM model was validated by
João M. B. Pereira +4 more
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Sensors, 2020 A high-energy nanosecond-pulsed ultraviolet (UV) laser Talbot interferometer for high-efficiency, mass production of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) array was experimentally demonstrated.
Zhe Zhang +5 more
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IEEE Access, 2020 We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel dual-polarization distributed feedback fiber laser (DFB-FL) sensor based on femtosecond laser-inscribed in-fiber stressors. The resonant cavity of the DFB-FL sensor consists of a phase-shifted fiber Bragg
Kuikui Guo +3 more
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Recent Advances in Optical Fiber Enabled Radiation Sensors
Sensors, 2022 Optical fibers are being widely utilized as radiation sensors and dosimeters. Benefiting from the rapidly growing optical fiber manufacturing and material engineering, advanced optical fibers have evolved significantly by using functional structures and ...
Jing Zhang +5 more
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Optical Fiber Probe Microcantilever Sensor Based on Fabry–Perot Interferometer
Sensors, 2022 Optical fiber Fabry–Perot sensors have long been the focus of researchers in sensing applications because of their unique advantages, including highly effective, simple light path, low cost, compact size, and easy fabrication.
Yongzhang Chen +7 more
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