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Optical Fibers Fuel Intrinsic Sensor Development

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Dr. Chris Emslie, Fibercore Ltd., and Dr. Aileen Sansone, Chesapeake Sciences Corp.

Intrinsic sensors based on fiber optics rely on the interaction among the environment, the fiber and the light to generate information about a specific measurand. They benefit from the fiber’s guiding ability, which enables a long optical path to be confined within a small volume. This long optical path can magnify very small optical effects, thereby increasing the sensitivity of the device (see figure). Intrinsic sensors based on optical fiber benefit from the ability to confine a very long optical path within a small volume. If Michelson and Gale had had access to optical fiber in 1925,...Read full article

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    Published: September 2004
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