Single-piece-fiber FMCW remote strain sensor with environment-insensitive lead-in and lead-out fibers

Gang Zheng*, Michael Campbell, Peter A. Wallace, A. Sheila Holmes-Smith

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Abstract

We present a novel optical fiber remote strain sensor which is based on the FMCW technique and consists of only one single piece of single-mode birefringent fiber. The lead-in and lead-out fibers of the sensor, which are simply separated by two polarization mode couplers, are insensitive to environment so that the sensor can remotely detect the strain variation of a distant structure. The advantages of the sensor, such as no fiber junctions, no feedback light, reasonable resolution (4 microstrain), large dynamic measurement range (5000 microstrain) and long length of sensing fiber are demonstrated in this experiment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings Volume 2839, Fiber Optic and Laser Sensors XIV
EditorsRamon P. DePaula, John W.III Berthold
Pages272-276
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1996
EventSPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation - Denver, United States
Duration: 4 Aug 19969 Aug 1996

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume2839
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceSPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period4/08/969/08/96

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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