1st Edition

Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Sensors An Introduction

By Yun-Jiang Rao, Zeng-Ling Ran, Yuan Gong Copyright 2017

    The authors deliver a complete overview of fiber-optic Fabry-Perot (FFP) sensing technology, integrating the knowledge and tools of multiple fields including optics, sensing, micromachining, instrumentation, physics, and materials science. The main chapters discuss operating principles, microstructures, fabrication methods, signal demodulation, and instrumentation. This treatment spans the full range of structures (intrinsic/extrinsic, multimode fiber vs single-mode fibers), as well as advanced micromachining technologies and major interrogating and multiplexing methods for the formation of multi-point, quasi-distributed sensing networks. Readers will also gain a summary of state-of-the-art applications in oil, gas, and electricity industries, aerospace technology, and biomedicine.

    Yun-Jiang Rao is Dean of the School of Communication & Information Engineering, and Director of the Key Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing & Communications at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Zeng-Ling Ran and Yuan Gong are both associate professors at the Optical Fiber Technology Research Laboratory of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

    Principles
    Physics of Fabry-Perot cavities
    Principles of FFPI sensors

    Microstructures of FFP Sensors
    Single mode FFPI structures
    Multimode FFPI sensors
    Hybrid FFPI sensors
    Microstructured FFPI sensors

    Fabrication Techniques for FFP Sensors
    Femtosecond laser micromachining
    Deep UV laser micromachining system
    Focused ion beam milling (tapered fibers)
    Chemical etching (doped fibers)
    Summery

    Physical and Biochemical Sensors Based on FFPIs
    Physical sensors
    Biochemical sensors
    Temperature-insensitive or temperature-compensated sensing

    Interrogation and Multiplexing Techniques for Fiber-Optic Fabry-Perot Sensors
    Introduction
    Intensity interrogating methods and instruments
    Spectral interrogating for absolute OPD demodulation
    OPD demodulation methods
    Multiplexing methods of FFP sensors

    Applications
    Structure Health Monitoring
    Energy (oil, gas, electricity)
    Aerospace (aircraft, engines)
    Biomedicine (Inspecting)
    Other applications

    Biography

    Yun-Jiang Rao is dean of the School of Communication & Information Engineering, and director of the Key Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing & Communications at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Prior to joining there, he was a research fellow/senior research fellow at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is a fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering and has been working on fiber-optic Fabry-Perot sensors since he joined the groups of two outstanding pioneers of fiber-optic sensors, Prof. Brian Culshaw and Prof. David Jackson, in the early 1990s. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and international conference proceedings, which gained >2000 citations in Web of Science (H-index of 28) and >6000 citations in Google Scholar (H-index of 38). He serves as an associate editor of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, and Optics and Laser Technology, and is also the editor-in-chief of Photonic Sensors.

    Zeng-Ling Ran is an associate professor at the Optical Fiber Technology Research Laboratory of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

    Yuan Gong is an associate professor at the Optical Fiber Technology Research Laboratory of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

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    —Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics and Professor of Materials, University of California Santa Barbara