Fiber Optic Systems: Optical Fiber Sensor Technology and Windows

On-line testing of high power electromagnetic devices is one of the most important problems of modern industrial metrology. In the paper, the results of experimental investigations of the electric field optical fiber sensor based on the electroluminescent phenomena are presented. The electro¬luminescent effect is observed in some composite semicon¬ductors, among others in zinc sulfide ZnS crystals. In our investigations, the used ZnS crystal was doped with copper Cu atoms as activators. The concentration of activator in the ZnS crystal was about 5.10-4 [g/g]. According to plans of investi¬gations of the elaborated electroluminescent sensor, the spectral properties as well as the intensity of light emission in sinusoidal alternating electric field were tested.Full Text: PDF References:K.T.V. Grattan, Fiber Optic Fluorescence Thermometry, Chapman and Hall, London, 1996 [CrossRef]K. Kyuma, S. Tai, T. Sawada, "Fiber-optic instrument for temperature measurement", J. Quntum. Electronics, 73(3), 1997 [CrossRef]A. Brief, J. Chem. Educ., 88(6), 731 (2011). [CrossRef]T. Pustelny, B. Pustelny, "Investigation of electroluminophores for their practical application in optical fibre sensor technology", Opto-Electronics Rev.,10(3), 193 (2002). [CrossRef]A.Wrzesinska, Photo- and electroluminophore, Wroclaw, PWN Press, 1988, (in polish) [DirectLink]K.A. Franz, W.G. Kehr, "Luminescent Materials", Ullmans Encyclopedie of Industral Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, Veinhen, 2008 [CrossRef]A.G. Milnes, Deep Impurities In Semiconductors, A Willey-Interscience Publication, Toronto, 1993 [DirectLink]M. Aven, J.S. Prener, Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Compounds, North-Holland Publishing Company - Amsterdam, 1993 [DirectLink]P.K. Cheo, Fiber Optics Devices and Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1985 [CrossRef]D. Randall, Fluorescence and Phosphorescence, Grown, Oxford, 2007. [CrossRef]M. Koen, Photoconductivity of Semiconductors, Edited by Parks, New York, 1996 [CrossRef]K.R. Murphy, C.A. Stedmon, Annal. Methods, 6(3), 658, (2014) [CrossRef]T. Pustelny, K. Barczak, K. Gut, J. Wojcik, "Special optical fiber type D applied in optical sensor of electric currents", Optica Applicata, 34(4), 531 (2004). [DirectLink]K. Barczak, T. Pustelny, D. Dorosz, J. Dorosz, "Polarization maintaining fibers for application in magnetic field measurements", Europ. Phys. Journal: S.T., 154, 11, (2008) [CrossRef]

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Fiber-Optic Sensor Technology and Combinatorial Chemistry

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-804-jj7.7 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 804 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Geissinger ◽

Barry J. Prince ◽

Nadejda T. Kaltcheva ◽

Maureen J. Prince ◽

Alan W. Schwabacher

Keyword(s):

Optical Fiber ◽

Optical Fibers ◽

Combinatorial Chemistry ◽

Fiber Optic ◽

Optical Fiber Sensor ◽

Combinatorial Libraries ◽

Fiber Optic Sensor ◽

Fiber Sensor ◽

Sensor Technology ◽

Compound Libraries

ABSTRACTOur recently introduced “Fiber-Optic Combinatorial Chemistry” technique combines combinatorial synthetic methods and optical fiber sensor technologies. Our one-dimensional combinatorial chemistry method allows for synthesis of large compound libraries in a linear format, for example in the cladding of optical fibers. Subjecting these libraries to assays that indicate positive identification of a library member by the binding of a fluorescent group, produces, in effect, an optical fiber sensor array. The location of a particular fluorescent region along the optical fiber can be determined through the optical time-of-flight technique, in which laser pulses propagating through the fiber core probe through their evanescent fields the fluorescent properties of the compounds located in the fiber cladding. It is a virtue of our combinatorial synthetic procedure that with the location of a compound on the fiber, its synthetic history is immediately known. We demonstrated that limitations on the spatial resolution of compounds along the fiber due to the excited state lifetimes of the fluorescent marker molecules can be overcome by the use of a second fiber - evanescently coupled to the first one - as an optical delay.The existing claddings of optical fibers severely restrict the range of chemistries for the synthesis of combinatorial libraries. Therefore, in order to make our method more generally applicable, the existing fiber cladding has to be replaced by a porous material that can act as solid support for reactions and at the same time preserve the optical guiding conditions of the fiber. In this contribution we discuss the requirements for such a replacement cladding and evaluate the general suitability of a functionalized candidate material.

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Special Section Guest Editorial: Optical Fiber Sensor Technology

Optical Engineering ◽

10.1117/1.oe.58.7.072001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 58 (07) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Gary A. Miller ◽

Stavros Pissadakis ◽

Ping Lu

Keyword(s):

Optical Fiber ◽

Guest Editorial ◽

Special Section ◽

Optical Fiber Sensor ◽

Fiber Sensor ◽

Sensor Technology

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The Measure Technology of the Structure Stress during the Weighing Process of the Large Structure

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.838-841.2010 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 838-841 ◽

pp. 2010-2013

Author(s):

Shu Min Li

Keyword(s):

Finite Element Analysis ◽

Optical Fiber ◽

Dynamic Stress ◽

Test Bench ◽

Optical Fiber Sensor ◽

Fiber Sensor ◽

Sensor Technology ◽

Large Structure ◽

Element Analysis ◽

Key Points

The structure needs to be lifted-off from the ground during the weighing progress. For that the weighing fulcrum and the building fulcrum are different and the building fulcrum is fewer usually and the weighing system has some asynchronism during the lifting process of the structure, it is very important to measure the stress of the key points of the structure during the weighing progress. The paper uses finite element analysis to get the stress sensitive of the weighing device while weighing and uses the optical fiber sensor technology to measure the dynamic stress. Through the experiment with the weighing test bench show that the optical fiber sensor technology has a clear advantage to the traditional resistance strain gauge technique.

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