Title :
Contrastometric Fiber Optic Elongation Sensor
Author :
Szustakowski, Mieczyslaw ; Palka, Norbert ; Kizlik, Bogdan
Author_Institution :
Military Univ. of Technol., Warsaw
fDate :
Feb. 28 2006-March 4 2006
Abstract :
The elongation sensor bases on the contrast measurements in an unbalanced fiber optic Michelson interferometer with a 3 x 3 coupler and a semiconductor multimode laser. For 1-m long sensor we obtained 5-mm measuring range with plusmn28-mum uncertainty.
Keywords :
Michelson interferometers; elongation; fibre optic sensors; optical couplers; semiconductor lasers; contrast measurements; contrastometric fiber optic elongation sensor; fiber optic Michelson interferometer; optical coupler; semiconductor multimode laser; size 1 m; Equations; Laser modes; Optical coupling; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Polynomials; Semiconductor lasers; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Contrastometric sensor. Fiber optic; Elongation sensor; Interferometer;
Conference_Titel :
Modern Problems of Radio Engineering, Telecommunications, and Computer Science, 2006. TCSET 2006. International Conference
Conference_Location :
Lviv-Slavsko
Print_ISBN :
966-553-507-2
DOI :
10.1109/TCSET.2006.4404456
