J. Kilpatrick, W. Macpherson, J. Barton, J. Jones, D. Buttsworth, T. Jones, K. Chana, J. S. Anderson
{"title":"Fibre optic microsensor for measurement of temperature dynamics in gas turbine systems","authors":"J. Kilpatrick, W. Macpherson, J. Barton, J. Jones, D. Buttsworth, T. Jones, K. Chana, J. S. Anderson","doi":"10.1117/12.309675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309675","url":null,"abstract":"The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model the temperature and pressure distributions which drive complex thermodynamic processes in gas turbine systems contributes to more cost efficient turbine design and development. However, experimental measurements are still required for validation of full-field CFD models, particularly in regions of highly unsteady flow where model stability is most severely tested. THis work concerns the development of fiber optic temperature and pressure microsensors for measurements combining high spatial resolution and high bandwidth in unsteady gas flows. The objective of the work presented in this paper was to measure gas total temperature in a large- scale turbomachinery test-rig at DERA Pyestock, known as the Isentropic Light Piston Facility. We have accordingly designed a dual sensor system, in which one of the elements is heated, so that gas total temperature can be measured independently of the convective heat transfer coefficient. While such dual element probes based on thin-film resistance gauges have been developed previously for aerodynamic studies, this is the first report of their development using optical sensors.","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125570970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. G. Burnett, G. Erry, R. Dickson, R. McBride, M. Gander, J. Jones, P. Blanchard, A. Greenaway, A. R. Harvey
{"title":"Channeled spectrum interrogation of an all-fibre broadband interferometric differential strain sensor","authors":"J. G. Burnett, G. Erry, R. Dickson, R. McBride, M. Gander, J. Jones, P. Blanchard, A. Greenaway, A. R. Harvey","doi":"10.1117/12.309667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309667","url":null,"abstract":"Optical fibre interferometric strain sensors embedded into structures offer a very accurate and robust method for shape measurement [1]. Many schemes have been demonstrated in which strain and/or temperature in a structure are inferred from monochromatic optical phase delay [2].","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128135053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Rao, N. E. Fisher, P. J. Henderson, V. Lecoeuche, C. Pannell, D. Webb, D. Jackson
{"title":"Recent developments in fibre optic sensors for point and distributed sensing in large structures","authors":"Y. Rao, N. E. Fisher, P. J. Henderson, V. Lecoeuche, C. Pannell, D. Webb, D. Jackson","doi":"10.1117/12.309659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309659","url":null,"abstract":"The recent development of the in-fibre Bragg grating sensor (FBG) with its unique ability to detect temperature and strain and ease with which large numbers of such sensors, deployed remotely, can be multiplexed, has lead to the possibility of monitoring the structural integrity of major capitol items such as buildings and bridges.","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124353941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed temperature sensor (DTS) based on correlation technology","authors":"Zhang Bo","doi":"10.1117/12.309660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309660","url":null,"abstract":"The correlation DTS is based on correlation technology and Raman scattering concept. First let us know something about correlation and Raman scattering.. A. Correlation technique A correlation DTS launches an optical direct Pseudonoise(PN) sequence to probe the fibre. By integrating a returning anti-stokes sequence from the fibre, we can get the temperature information.","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134144186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design aspects of an alexandrite fluorescence lifetime fiber optic thermometer","authors":"A. Kobe, A. Babnik, J. Mozina","doi":"10.1117/12.309637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309637","url":null,"abstract":"Fluorescence lifetime based sensors have long since proven their advantages in several measurement fields, including thermometry[l]. Inherent stability to the source intensity fluctuations and possible reference-free design give them a unique position among optical sensors. However, certain issues, such as experimental design (measurement type, dynamic range) and signal processing to decode information from the fluorescence lifetime, still have to be addressed","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134149821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brillouin-based distributed fibre sensor incorporating a Brillouin laser","authors":"V. Lecoeuche, D. Webb, C. Pannell, D. Jackson","doi":"10.1117/12.309663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309663","url":null,"abstract":"Stimulated Brillouin scattering is a unique parametric interaction which offers a simultaneous sensitivity to temperature and strain. Distributed sensing over 50 km with a spatial resolution in the meter range has been demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"20 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131993025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. López-Higuera, P. Mottier, A. Cobo, E. Ollier, Miguel A. Morante Rabago, C. Chabrol, Francisco J. Madruga Saavedra, P. Philippe
{"title":"Optical fiber and integrated optics accelerometers for real-time vibration monitoring in harsh environments: in-lab and in-field characterization","authors":"J. López-Higuera, P. Mottier, A. Cobo, E. Ollier, Miguel A. Morante Rabago, C. Chabrol, Francisco J. Madruga Saavedra, P. Philippe","doi":"10.1117/12.309678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309678","url":null,"abstract":"The reliability of rotating machines such as electrical generator is critical to the overall reliability and operation of electrical power plants. The very high cost of these machines, makes it necessary to improve the lifetime of a wide set of currently installed hydrogenerators around the world and avoid costly maintenance. Vibration monitoring is essential in maintenance and protection programs. However, due to the harsh environment and the very low frequency spectrum of the vibrations, the above mentioned machines cannot be appropriately monitored by piezoelectric sensors. Several combination of optical fiber with silicon microstructures or in integrated optics, but because of technical or economic reasons, up to now, these sensors are not fully suited for the above-mentioned applications. In this paper both optical fiber and integrated optics accelerometers developed in order to satisfy specifications required for these applications are presented. Their developments were a part of a European project dedicated to real time defect detection and predict forthcoming failures of a generator group in an electric power plant in Spain. In-laboratory and in-field test are reported.","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122044820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radiation dosimetry in radiotherapy: a model for an extrinsic optical fiber sensor","authors":"A. Mignani, S. Romano, F. Fusi, A. Mencaglia","doi":"10.1117/12.309649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309649","url":null,"abstract":"The success of radiotherapy relies on the on-line monitoring of the dose of radiation to which the tumor and its adjacent tissues are exposed. Conventional thermoluminescence dosimeters provide only off-line monitoring, since they determine the radiation dosage after completion of the exposure. In order to overcome this limitation, optical fiber sensors have been proposed, which allow for a minimally invasive, real time and continuous monitoring of the delivered which allow for a minimally invasive, real time and continuous monitoring of the delivered dosage. These sensors make use of radio-transducers which are coupled at the end of a radiation-resistant fiber link, so as to obtain a radiation-induced intensity modulation. Typical radio-transducers are: (1) phosphors, which are stimulated to produce a visible luminescence linearly related to the radiation exposure; (2) heavy-metal-doped fiber sections, which undergo an intensity attenuation in the presence of radiation; (3) radiochromic dyes, which exhibit radiation-modulated optical absorption spectra. This paper presents preliminary test of radiation dosimetry performed by means of an extrinsic optical fiber sensor which makes use of a radiochromic film as radio-transducer. The spectral behavior of the transducer allows for two- wavelength differential measurements, so as to obtain a reference intensity-based sensor output.","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117233104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survey of U.S. patent activity in optical fibre sensors","authors":"Zhiyi Zhang, K. Grattan","doi":"10.1117/12.309677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309677","url":null,"abstract":"A range of reports and most significantly several surveys of commercial optical fibre sensor technology have been carried out and published in recent years. In 1988 ERA Technology Ltd issued a report to the Optical Sensors Collaborative Association (OSCA) in the UK on a world-wide survey of manufacturers in the field and in 1994 this work was extended in a further document adding to the data available though a report based on interviews (mostly in the USA) and a questionnaire to major manufacturers","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121112220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiber lasers for sensing","authors":"B. Y. Kim","doi":"10.1117/12.309679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.309679","url":null,"abstract":"Optical fiber sensors have been developed for more than two decades and are now in practical use for many different applications. Their advantageous characteristics, such as high sensitivity, immunity to electromagnetic interference, small size, environmental stability, and multiplexing capability, make it possible to measure new physical parameters and to place the sensors in new environment","PeriodicalId":399876,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fibre Sensors","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122870352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}