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A Study of the Boring Bar Vibration Measurement using Optical Fiber Sensor (보링바 고유진동 계측을 위한 광섬유 진동센서 연구)

  • Song, Doo-Sang;Hong, Jun-Hee;Jeong, Hwang-Young;Kang, Dae-Hwa;Kim, Byung-In
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we studied of measurement the vibration of natural frequency using optical fiber sensor. The boring bar for measurement of vibration in use optical fiber sensor has the advantage of direct measure for the frequency than accelerometer. Because it deal with output value on electrical signal of optical fiber in physical disturbance when it measures the frequency of vibration. The optical fiber sensor measured the vibration of boring bar by the gap in sensing jig while optical fiber just kept contact with boring bar. A prototype system was composed of jig part with gap and optical system part. In this paper, we found out the possibility to measurement of vibration by the gap in use optical fiber.

Feasibility study on the development of respiration sensor using a chalcogenide optical fiber (Chalcogenide 광섬유를 이용한 호흡측정 센서 개발을 위한 기초 연구)

  • Yoo, Wook-Jae;Cho, Dong-Hyun;Jang, Kyoung-Won;Oh, Jeong-Eun;Lee, Bong-Soo;Tack, Gye-Rae
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.331-336
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    • 2007
  • In this study, we have fabricated an infrared optical fiber based sensor which can monitor the respiration of a patient. The design of a chalcogenide optical fiber based sensor is suitable for insertion into a high electro-magnetic field environment because the sensor consists of low cost and compact mid-infrared components such as an infrared light source, a chalcogenide optical fiber and a thermopile sensor. A fiber-optic respiration sensor is capable of detecting carbon dioxide ($CO_{2}$) in exhalation of a patient using the infrared absorption characteristics of carbon gases. The modulated infrared radiation due to the presence of carbon dioxide is guided to the thermopile sensor via a chalcogenide receiving fiber. It is expected that a mid-infrared fiber-optic respiration sensor which can be developed based on the results of this study would be highly suitable for respiration measurements of a patient during the procedure of an MRI.

Displacement Measurement by Multiplexed Optical Loss -based Fiber Optic Sensor (다중화된 광 손실형 광섬유 센서에 의한 변위의 측정)

  • 권일범;김치엽;유정애
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.556-565
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    • 2003
  • Light losses in optical fibers are investigated by a fiber optic OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometry) sensor system to develop fiber optic probes for structural displacement measurement. The displacement sensitivity was determined by the measurements of fiber-bending loss according to the gage length changes of the displacement sensor. The fiber optic displacement probe was manufactured to verify the feasibility of the structural displacement measurement.

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A study on single body design of optical current sensor and optical voltage sensor (광전류/광전압 센서의 일체화 설계에 관한 연구)

  • 김영수;김요희
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1596-1603
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    • 1996
  • A single body type of fiber-optic current and voltae sensor using a rare earth doped YIG and a bismuth silicon oxide single crystsl is proposed, which is used for simultaneous measurement of the AC electric current and AC electric voltage over the trasmission lines. Experimental results showed that the fiber-optic current sensor has the maximum 7.5% error within the current range of 0A to 400A, and the fiber-optic voltage sensor has the maximum 0.87% error within the current range of 0V to 400V. The output waveforms of proposed fiber-optic sensor system has a good agreement with output waveforms of conductor current and voltage. Experimental results proved that the output of fiber-optic current sensor is not affected by the electric voltage applied to the fiber-optic voltage sensor, and also, that the output of fiber-optic voltage sensor is not affected by the electric current applied to the fiber-optic current sensor.

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Development of Optical Fiber Coupled Displacement Probe Sensor with a New Compensation Method (보상법을 적용한 광섬유 변위센서의 개발)

  • ;;;P. Sainsot;L. Flamand
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2002
  • The intensity modulated type (reflective method) optical fiber sensor is a well -known method and widely applied to the displacement measurements and other industrial purposes. This type sensor has the advantages of relatively cheap cost, small sensor size and easiness of operation. The sensitivity of the sensor is very dependent of several error terms; the variation in the intensity of the light source and the changes in the surface reflectivity of the object. An optical fiber coupled displacement probe with a new compensation method is presented in this paper. The proposed displacement sensor can measure the displacements of the target surface independent of surface reflectivity error that is caused by the materials and surface processing grade.

Sensor Mat using POF for Medical Application (의료용 플라스틱광섬유 센서 매트)

  • Choi, Kyoo-Nam
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.363-365
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    • 2007
  • Novel concept of sensor mat and its signal processing method is proposed for patient monitoring in medical application. Proposed sensor mat structure has sensing inner layer which has cross-linked arrangement using plastic optical fiber(POF). Large core diameter of plastic optical fiber behaved as band pass filter by averaging the noise component. caused by unwanted environmental factors. Signal processor followed by sensor output added noise immune performance by filtering out unwanted component. Fail-proof patient breath monitoring scheme was realized by using intelligent decision algorithm. Unlike the conventional approach by using mechanical sensor, which have high sensitivity both to intruder and to environmental noise, our approach provided reliable breath motion detection.

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Implantation of portable hydrogen alarm system based on palladium coated single mode optical fiber sensor (팔라듐이 코팅된 단일모드 광섬유 센서를 이용한 수소 경보 시스템 구현)

  • Mun, Nam-Il;Yang, Byung-Cheol;Kim, Kwang-Taek;Kim, Tae-Un
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.269-273
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a study on a portable hydrogen alarm system based on the palladium coated single mode fiber sensor has been reported. The fabricated hydrogen sensor exhibited 0.14 dB, 0.41 dB and 0.54 dB optical intensity variation when it was exposed by the nitrogen and hydrogen mixed gas containing 0.5 %, 1 % and 4 % of the hydrogen concentration, respectively. The fabricated sensor exhibited 20 second of response time and 120 second of recovery time for 4 % hydrogen containing gas. The fiber optics layout and software algorithm for detection of hydrogen leakage have been presented. The implanted portable hydrogen alarm system successfully generated an alarm signal when a 4 % hydrogen containing gas was leaked out.

A study on the fatigue behavior of optical fiber sensors embedded in smart composite structures (지능형 복합재 구조물에 삽입된 광섬유센서의 피로거동에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Tae-Seong;Kim, Ho;Lee, Jung-Ju
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.579-587
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    • 1998
  • In this study, fatigue behavior of the optical fiber sensor embedded in composite laminate was investigated. Static tensile and fatigue tests were performed for three types of laminated composite specimens with embedded optical fiber sensor in the neutral plane ; [0/sub 6//OF/0/sub 6/]/sub T/, [0/sub 2//90/sub 4//OF/90/sub 4//0/sub 2/]/sub T/ and [0/sub 3//90/sub 3//OF/90/sub 3//0/sub 3/]/sub T/. The fracture of the embedded optical fiber sensor was detected by the intensity drop off of laser signal transmitted through the optical fiber sensors embedded within laminated composite specimen. The maximum fatigue stress applied to laminated specimen was compared with the average tensile stress at which the fracture of the embedded optical fiber within the laminate occurred under static tensile loading. From the experiments, firstly it is observed that the decrease in the life of optical fiber sensors embedded within unidirectional-ply laminate by the fatigue loading is relatively small compared to that of cross-ply laminate. Secondly, the optical fiber embedded in unidirectional-ply laminate is fractured by the fatigue damage due to the growth of internal defects of optical fiber, however the optical fiber embedded in cross-ply laminate is fractured by the growth of transverse matrix crack.

Hydrogen Sensor Based on Palladium-Attached Fiber Bragg Grating

  • Lee, Sang-Mae;Sirkis, Jim-S.
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 1999
  • This paper demonstrated the performance of a palladium wire hydrogen sensor based on a fiber Bragg grating as a means of developing a quasi-distributed hydrogen sensor network capable of operating at cryogenic temperatures. The new approach employing a fiber Bragg grating based palladium hydrogen sensor described in this study is advantageous over other traditional hydrogen sensors because of the multiplexing capability of fiber Bragg gratings. The sensitivity of the hydrogen sensor at room temperature is approximately 2.5 times that of the hydrogen sensor at cryogenic temperatures.

Fabrication of Optical Fiber Gas Sensor with Polyaniline Clad

  • Lee, Yun-Su;Song, Kap-Duk;Joo, Byung-Su;Lee, Sang-Mun;Choi, Nak-Jin;Lee, Duk-Dong;Huh, Jeung-Soo
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.96-100
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    • 2004
  • Optical fiber sensors have been used to detect small amounts of chemical species. In this work, a new thin polymer-clad fiber sensor is developed. Polyaniline is chemically synthesized and thin clad layers of the polymer are easily deposited on optical fiber by dip-coating technique. The optical property of polyaniline as a sensing material is analyzed by UV-Vis-NIR. The light source is stabilized He-Ne laser at 635 nm wavelength with 1 mW power. The light power transmitted through the optical fiber is measured with a spectrophotometer. By selecting a fixed incident angle, variation of transmitted light intensity through the optical fiber can be detected as gas molecules absorbed in the polyaniline clad layer. Among the various gases, the fabricated optical fiber sensor shows good sensitivity to $NH_{3}$ gas. The optical fiber sensors was shown more improved properties than polymer based sensors which measure conductivity changes.