The field of fiber optic sensors is one that has existed embryonically for nearly 30 years, since the invention of the low loss optical fiber, but essentially only since the mid-1970s, driven initially by the force of the technological revolution in telecommunication. Great strides in the progress of the field have taken place during this period, and fiber optic sensors exist, or are currently under development, based on a wide range of transducing principles, for almost every measure that has been of traditional interest, from physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and flowrate through to chemical and biochemical species such as chlorides and nitrates in aqueous solution, ammonia, pH and glucose. Fiber optic sensors have already achieved notable successes. Fiber optic gyroscopes have had and will continue to have a huge impact on the precision accelerometer market and engineering solutions are continuously being developed which will bring other fiber optic sensors, such as optically-addressed silicon microresonators, to a mass market.
This text provides a brief and concise introductory text to the areas of fiber optic and integrated optic sensors of particular use to newer researchers in these fields, and for more experienced workers wishing to obtain a broader horizon on their work. This is achieved by making each of the chapters in the book largely self-contained and emphasizing the physical principles involved in each type of device, as well as illustrating the broad measurement rules which are and will remain fundamental to good engineering practice.
- ISBN10 0412630907
- ISBN13 9780412630903
- Publish Date July 1996
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 20 March 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Chapman and Hall
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English