Optical Fiber Sensors, Volume III: Components and Subsystems / Edition 1

by Dakin, John Dakin

Overview

These hands-on problem-solving guides bring together the knowledge of international authors in the field to create a state-of-the-art picture of optical fiber sensors. They include technology overviews, survey applications, and describe measurement and implementation techniques. Helpful real-world case studies are also featured. Actual sensor performance examples provide guidance on measurement evaluations, environmental conditions, performance limitations, potential applications, and process-compatible formats, devices, and systems.

Optical Fiber Sensors III: Components and Subsystems discusses the significance of recent fiber optic developments, including:

� The Fiber Bragg grating — and its impact on the basics of sensing technology
� The optical fiber amplifier — and its emergence as an important optical source when configured as
a laser and as a broadband photoluminescent device
� Distributed sensing — and its development at both the conceptual level and in the engineering of optical time-domain reflectometers



� Chemical and environmental monitoring
� Structural instrumentation and "smart" structures
� Process control and engineering
� Specialist industrial measurements

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890069325
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	Optical Fiber Sensors Series
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Optical Fiber-Chemical Sensing Using Direct Spectroscopy. Chemical Sensing Using Indicator Dyes. Dynamic Light Scattering Applied and Its Application in Concentrated Suspensions. In Vivo Medical Sensors. Fiber-Optic Gyros. Fiber-Optic Sensors for Condition Monitoring and Engineering Diagnostics. Sensors in Industrial Systems. Distributed Sensors — Recent Developments. Multiplexing Techniques for Fiber-Optic Sensors. Fiber Optics and Smart Structures. Fiber-Optic Sensors — Commercial Presence.

Editorial Reviews

The first of two auxiliary volumes to update the first two, which were overtaken by advances in the technology and applications. Reviews the underlying principles of important components and subsystem technologies that have emerged since 1988 and 1989 and are now important contributing disciplines in optical-fiber sensing. After an overview, covers fiber gratings, evanescently coupled components, lasers and amplifiers, advances in high- speed OTDR detection, and spectral measurement techniques. The fourth volume will describe new applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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