Optics: measuring and testing – Material strain analysis – By light interference detector
Patent
1986-08-26
1988-09-27
Willis, Davis L.
Optics: measuring and testing
Material strain analysis
By light interference detector
356345, 356351, G01B 902
Patent
active
047737530
ABSTRACT:
A fiber sensor for measuring temperature or strain comprises a first polarization-maintaining fiber and a second polarization-maintaining fiber. In case of a temperature fiber sensor, the first and second fibers are selected to be unequal in change in phase difference caused by change in temperature but equal in change in phase difference caused by strain. In case of a strain fiber sensor, the first and second fibers are selected to be unequal in change in phase difference caused by strain but equal in change in phase difference caused by change in temperature. Axes of polarization of the first and second fibers are shifted by 90.degree. at a junction of the fibers. With this arrangement, the temperature fiber sensor can measure the change in temperature with high accuracy without being affected by strain, while the strain fiber sensor can measure the strain with high accuracy without being affected by the change in temperature.
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Langeac, "Temperature Sensing in Twisted Single-Mode Fibres", Electronics Letters, vol. 18, No. 24, pp. 1022-1023, 11/82.
Electronics Letters, vol. 20, No. 1, Jan. 1984, pp. 51-53, London, GB: J. P. Dakin et al: "Compensated Polarimetric Sensor Using Polarisation-Maintaining Fibre in a Differential Configuration".
Hirose Takao
Matsumura Yoshiyasu
Daiichi Denshi Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Koren Matthew W.
Willis Davis L.
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