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Temperature Compensation of a Fiber Optic Strain Sensor Based on Brillouin Scattering

  • Cho, Seok-Beom;Lee, Jung-Ju;Kwon, Il-Bum
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.168-173
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    • 2004
  • Brillouin scattering-based fiber optic sensors are useful to measure strain or temperature in a distributed manner. Since the Brillouin frequency of an optical fiber depends on both the strain and temperature, it is very important to know whether the Brillouin frequency shift is caused by the strain change or temperature change. This article presents a temperature compensation technique of a Brillouin scattering-based fiber optic strain sensor. Both the changes of the Brillouin frequency and the Brillouin gain power is observed for the temperature compensation using a BOTDA sensor system. Experimental results showed that the temperature compensated strain values were highly consistent with actual strain values.

Blind Signal Processing for Medical Sensing Systems with Optical-Fiber Signal Transmission

  • Kim, Namyong;Byun, Hyung-Gi
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2014
  • In many medical image devices, dc noise often prevents normal diagnosis. In wireless capsule endoscopy systems, multipath fading through indoor wireless links induces inter-symbol interference (ISI) and indoor electric devices generate impulsive noise in the received signal. Moreover, dc noise, ISI, and impulsive noise are also found in optical fiber communication that can be used in remote medical diagnosis. In this paper, a blind signal processing method based on the biased probability density functions of constant modulus error that is robust to those problems that can cause error propagation in decision feedback (DF) methods is presented. Based on this property of robustness to error propagation, a DF version of the method is proposed. In the simulation for the impulse response of optical fiber channels having slowly varying dc noise and impulsive noise, the proposed DF method yields a performance enhancement of approximately 10 dB in mean squared error over its linear counterpart.

Fabrication and Performances Tests of the Optical Fiber Position Sensor for Application to Spindle State Monitoring (주축 상태 모니터링 용 광파이버 변위센서 제작 및 성능평가)

  • Shin Woo-cheol;Hong Jun-hee;Park Chan-gyu
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents fabrication techniques of the optical fiber position sensor (or spindle state monitoring. These include selection of components such as optical fibers, a laser-diode, a photo-diode, and op-amp IC of the signal process circuit. We also describe electric runout problem. The fabricated sensor has a linearity of $1.7\%$ FSO in the air gap range $0.1\~0.6mm$, a resolution of $0.37{\mu}m$ and a bandwidth of 6.3kHz. Finally, we have successfully operated a magnetic bearing spindle system using the sensors.

Development of fabric-based optical fiber tactile sensor using optical fiber bending loss (광섬유 굽힘 손실을 이용한 직물 기반의 광섬유 촉각센서 개발)

  • Kim, Ju-Young;Baek, Sang-Ho;Lee, Jung-Ju
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.210-216
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    • 2009
  • In this paper the tactile sensor system based on the bending loss of optical fiber sensor is presented. The sensor array was designed with fabric structure. The optical measuring system was composed of LED for light source and CCD camera for the signal light detector. Performance of this tactile sensor system was evaluated in various environments and compared with Harmon's design criteria. The result shows that load range is 3 g$\sim$100 g, resolution is 1.5 g, hysteresis error is 1.5%. The response linearity is good and flexibility of sensor array is excellent.

Low Speed Weigh-In Motion System Using Multi-FBG Sensors (다중 광섬유 브라그 격자 센서를 적용한 저속용 자동계중 시스템)

  • Lee Hojoon
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2004
  • We have demonstrated a low speed weigh-in motion system using FBG sensors and performed field test at a trial road. Technique, called identical chirped grating interrogation, have used for a demodulation relying on the mismatching of two identical broadband chirped gratings. We compensated the fluctuation of LED power and the temperature of sensor and used a lock-in amplifier to reduce effect of noise. We could design a bending plate that the measurement results are independent of position of weight. The FBG sensors weigh-in motion system showed linearity and reproducibility.

Temperature Sensor Based on Fabry-Perot Interferometer Using a Fiber Optic Patch Cord (광섬유 패치코드를 이용한 Fabry-Perot 간섭계 온도센서)

  • Kim, Ju Ha;Jung, Eun Joo;Kim, Myoung Jin;Hwang, Sung Hwan;Lee, Woo Jin;Kim, Gye Won;An, Jong Bae;Choi, Eun Seo;Rho, Byung Sup
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.110-113
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) optical fiber tip sensor fabricated by a blade-sawing technique using a fiber optic patch cord for high-resolution temperature measurement. The sensor head consists of a short air FP cavity near the tip of a single-mode fiber patch cord tip. The temperature which we can measure is determined through a phase variation of the interference fringes in the reflective spectrum of the sensor. The fiber optic FPI sensor in this work can monitor the environmental temperature very accurately from 40 to $120^{\circ}C$. As a result, the temperature sensitivity is obtained as $38.2pm/^{\circ}C$.

Fiber-optic biosensor for analysis of glucose and lactate in blood samples (혈액중 포도당과 젖산의 분석을 위한 광섬유 생물센서)

  • Sohn, Ok-Jae;Rhee, Jong-Il
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2006
  • Optical-fiber sensors have been developed to determine the concentrations of glucose and lactic acid in blood samples. Fluorescence dye [tris(2,2'-biphenyridine)-ruthenium(II)-chloride (RuBPY)] was entrapped by using a silicon to the unclad tip of a glass optic fiber. Enzymes like glucose oxidase (GOD) and lactate oxidase (LOD) have been immobilized by acrylamide resin adhesive, adsorption with zeolite or covalent bonding with aminopropyl-triethoxysilan. The fiber-optic glucose/lactate sensor was then used to analyze the concentrations of glucose and lactate in blood samples. The results were compared with the results of HPLC analysis and their difference was in error by less then 5 %.

Real-time Monitoring of Ethernet Passive Optical Network Using Burst-mode FBGs

  • Binh, Nguyen Khac;Choi, Su-il
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.186-192
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    • 2020
  • This paper describes a real-time monitoring system in Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) that uses burst-mode fiber Bragg grating (FBG) optical sensors. The FBG interrogation unit in the optical line terminal (OLT) transmits the monitoring wavelength to optical network units (ONUs). The FBG sensor unit in each ONU returns a burst-mode monitoring signal to the OLT. As the system applies time division multiple access (TDMA), a uniform Bragg wavelength can be used to monitor the EPON system. The FBG interrogation unit analyzes the received burst-mode monitoring signals and outputs fault information on the ONU branches in EPON. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed monitoring system based on TDMA. In addition, we compared the proposed TDMA-based monitoring system with a WDMA-based monitoring system.

이중광속을 이용한 레이저 도플러 속도 측정계(Fiber optic sensors 시스템 기술 개발연구)

  • 이형종
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1989.02a
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    • pp.134-139
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    • 1989
  • 레이저 도플러 효과를 써서 유체 또는 작은 입자의 속도를 잴수 있는 레이저 도플러 속도측정 장치를 만들었다. 광학계는 레이저 광속을 두 갈래로 나누어 다시 마주치게 하여 두 광속이 겹치는 곳에, 평행한 삼차원 간섭무늬가 생기도록 꾸몄다. 분무기로 작은 물방울을 만들어 두 광속이 겹치는 곳을 지나게 했더니 도플러 신호를 얻을 수 있었다.

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