A Novel Multifunctional Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor Based on Attenuation

Author

Wang, Chuantong ; Shida, Katsunori

Author_Institution

Dept. of Adv. Syst. Control Eng., Saga Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 April 2006

Firstpage

2018

Lastpage

2023

Abstract

A novel multifunctional distributed optical fiber sensor basing on fiber attenuation is proposed to measure ambient temperature and distributed pressure. The sensor is composed of two fibers, the first fiber is used to sense pressure and temperature value while the second fiber is for position information and pressure indication. Distributed sensing is realized based on the attenuation of the second fiber. Pressure position is determined by the outputs of the second fiber. The sensor works at the time-sharing model to realize the multifunctional sensing purpose with the second fiber working as indication. The prototype model of the sensor is developed and tested. The effectiveness of sensor is conformed by experimental results. The proposed sensor presents a novel method for distributed optical fiber sensor

Keywords

fibre optic sensors; pressure measurement; temperature measurement; distributed optical fiber sensor; distributed pressure measurement; distributed sensing; fiber attenuation; multifunctional optical fiber sensor; pressure position; temperature measurement; time-sharing model; Attenuation measurement; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fiber testing; Optical sensors; Pressure measurement; Prototypes; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Time sharing computer systems; distributed optical fiber sensor; fiber attenuation; multifunctional sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Sorrento

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9359-7

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2006.328400

Filename

4124710