Interferometric Fiber Optic Sensors
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...Sensors based on the Mach-Zender, and Michelson interferometers, also using long period gratings (LPGs) and photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) [14,15], have been used preferably for refractive index [16], temperature [17] or velocity measurement [18], while the Sagnac interferometer has been applied mainly to rotation measurements [19]....
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...The operation of interferometric sensors [14] is based on the change of the optical phase difference between two light waves with the same frequency, caused by the variation of a physical quantity....
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...To the extent of the authors‘ knowledge, there are a few review articles that have partly talked about the common fabrication, sensing technologies and measurands of Fabry-Perot Interferometric fiber-optic sensors, including [44], which only covers microcavities that play a significant role in forming FPI, vibration sensing in [45], strain measurement in [46], acousto-ultrasonic sensing in [47], and also includes a number of recent reviews given in [48] where the recent trends of FPI fabrication, methods and application are presented....
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...A Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) generally comprises of two parallel reflecting surfaces separated by a certain distance [66]....
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...It is possible to tune the intensity of the interferometric modes of an EFPI sensor by varying the gap between the two reflecting surfaces [66]....
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...Interferometric fiber sensors [66] can also be employed for strain/temperature measurements in composite materials and this is discussed in detail in this section....
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...The reflection or transmission spectrum of an FPI is a wavelength dependent intensity modulation of the input light spectrum, resulting from the optical phase difference between the reflected and transmitted beams [66,67]....
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...The optical phase difference between reflected or transmitted beams at a particular wavelength of the FPI is basically specified as [66]:...
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...Even with the photonic crystal fiber (PCFs) made of a single material, pure silica, a pair of LPGs could be made by applying periodic pressure along the PCF [44]....
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...The RI of the liquid solution calculated from the intensity variation of the Fourier peak is plotted in Figure 5(b) [38]....
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...Figure 7(d) shows one method in which a short piece of MMF is fusion spliced into a SMF at two points along the SMF....
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...The reflection spectrum of the double cavity FPI sensor, implemented with a piece of HOF of a length of ~70 μm and a MMF of ~360 μm, is shown in Figure 4(b)....
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...Since the HOF cavity and the MMF cavity have different thermo-optic coefficients, the temperature-induced movement of the first peak is different from the movements of the other peaks [37]....
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...By adjusting the lengths of multiple MMF cavities, multiplexing several sensors is also possible....
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