Fibre optic transducer

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1980-07-11

1982-07-13

Nelms, David C.

Radiant energy

Photocells; circuits and apparatus

Optical or pre-photocell system

7386122, G08B 1322

Patent

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043396615

ABSTRACT:
An optical fibre strain gauge arrangement is employed to take advantage of a so-called speckle effect. As used in a simple strain gauge, a coherent light source, e.g. a laser, launches light via a suitable launching device into a multimode optical fibre or fibre bundle. Due to slight differences in transmission times in the fibre or fibre bundle the light as received at a detector has a speckle pattern. If the fibre or fibre bundle is subjected to strain, the various transmission times are caused to change so that the speckle pattern shifts, the amount of the shift being a measure of the strain. This principle is usable in a vortex flowmeter where the vortices produced by a bluff body influence such a fibre arrangement. Further, when used underwater, passing ships and submarines may be detected. In a building, the arrangement may be used as an intruder detection system.

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patent: 4297684 (1981-10-01), Butter

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