Optična vlakna in pasivne optične naprave
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High-Order Fiber Bragg Grating Corrosion Sensor Based on the Detection of a Local Surface Expansion
This paper presents a fiber optic sensor for the detection of corrosion processes that occur on metal surfaces. In the proposed sensor design, a sensing fiber with an inscribed high-order Bragg grating is attached to…
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A Microfluidic, Flow-Through, Liquid Reagent Fluorescence Sensor Applied to Oxygen Concentration Measurement
A concept of a microfluidic fluorescent chemical sensing system is presented and demonstrated as a sensor for measurement of dissolved oxygen in water. The system utilizes on-line mixing of a fluorescent reagent with the analyzed…
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Microbend Point and Distributed Fiber Optic Corrosion Sensing
Corrosion-induced optical fiber microbending is demonstrated within this article as an efficient method for the design of sensors for the detection and localization of corrosion events on monitored metal surfaces. The proposed sensors were demonstrated…
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Miniature magneto-optic angular position sensor
This Letter describes a miniature Fabry–Perot, contactless, magneto-optic sensor for angular position measurement. The sensor utilizes a magneto-optic fluid comprising barium hexaferrite nanoplatelets that become birefringent in the presence of an external magnetic field and…
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Optical flow sensor based on the thermal time-of-flight measurement
This paper presents a dielectric, all-optical thermal time-of-flight fluid flow velocity sensor. The proposed sensor utilizes a sequence of three short sections of optical fibers, which are positioned in a direction perpendicular to the measured…
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Optically controlled fiber-optic micro-gripper for sub-millimeter objects
A miniature, fully optically controlled, dielectric, opto-thermally actuated tweezer/micro-gripper that is suitable for the manipulation of small objects is presented. The tweezer/micro-gripper is formed at the tip of an optical fiber and utilizes a mid-power…
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A miniature fabry perot sensor for twist/rotation, strain and temperature measurements based on a four-core fiber
In this article, a novel miniature Fabry-Perot twist/rotation sensor using a four core fiber and quadruple interferometer setup is presented and demonstrated. Detailed sensor modeling, analytical evaluation and test measurement assessment were conducted in this…
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All-fiber, thermo-optic liquid level sensor
This paper proposes an all-optical-fiber sensor for continuous measurements of liquid levels. The proposed sensor utilizes an optically absorbing vanadium doped optical fiber, which is configured as a long-gauge, optically-heated, fiber-optic, Fabry-Perot interferometer that is…
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All-optical, all-fiber, thermal conductivity sensor for identificationand characterization of fluids
This paper presents a miniature, all-optical, thermal conductivity fiber-optic sensor, which can be applied to various fluid composition identification situations. The sensor is composed of a short section of highly absorbing fiber, which is configured…
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In-line higher order mode filters based on long highly uniform fiber tapers
This paper presents a simple and effective design of taper-based higher order mode (HOM) filters that can effectively remove HOMs from the few-mode fibers. For this purpose, a taper manufacturing technique that allows the production…