General sensitivity enhancement and common-mode compensation principle for interferometric fiber-optic sensors

Author

Buckman, A. Bruce

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

Volume

8

Issue

10

fYear

1990

fDate

10/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1456

Lastpage

1460

Abstract

Numerical simulations are presented which show that, when an optical circuit for common-mode compensation and an electrooptic feedback network for measure and sensitivity enhancement are incorporated into any of four main types of interferometric fiber-optic sensors, measured sensitivity can be enhanced by at least an order of magnitude, while sensitivity to common-mode environmental perturbations (such as source wavelength drift or spatially uniform temperature variation) is drastically reduced

Keywords

feedback; fibre optic sensors; light interferometers; sensitivity; common-mode compensation; common-mode environmental perturbations; electrooptic feedback network; environmental perturbation sensitivity; interferometric fiber-optic sensors; measured sensitivity; sensitivity enhancement; source wavelength drift; spatially uniform temperature variation; Electrooptic devices; Feedback circuits; Numerical simulation; Optical feedback; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber sensors; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Temperature sensors; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.59181

Filename

59181