Fiber Optic Sensors

Thisreference presents a comprehensive account of the recent advances andresearch in fiber optic sensor technology. It offers a progressivehistory of each sensor type as well as basic principles andfundamental building blocks for practical applications in theelectrical aerospace, defense and manufacturing, smart structure,undersea surveillance, medical, and gas and oil industries.

FiberOptic Sensors highlights the development of fiber optic sensors andclassic applications; provides new methods for the construction ofhigh-speed and high-capacity fiber sensor systems; and describesrecent developments in fiber optic amplifiers, fiber Bragg gratingsensors, optical isolators, optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR),and fiber optic gyroscopes. The book details structural fatiguemonitoring for dams and bridges, the effect of external andenvironmental factors on fiber optic sensor performance,interferometer configuration multiplexing architecture, polarizationfading mitigation, and system integration, and updated applicationsof fiber optic sensors.