Title :
Uniaxial fiber Bragg grating based accelerometer
Author :
Khan, M.M. ; Tiwari, Usha ; Panwar, Nisha ; Dhawan, R. ; Jain, S.C. ; Bhatnagar, Rohit ; Garg, Radhika ; Kapur, Pawan
Author_Institution :
Central Sci. Instrum. Organ., Chandigarh, India
Abstract :
A uniaxial accelerometer based on fiber Bragg grating is designed and experimentally demonstrated. The accelerometer exhibit a linear response with high sensitivity. The sensitivity of about 306 pm/ g is achieved for a particular cantilever mass arrangement.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; accelerometers; fibre optic sensors; optical design techniques; cantilever mass arrangement; linear response; optical design; uniaxial accelerometer; uniaxial fiber Bragg grating;
Conference_Titel :
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4718-1