Temperature sensor based on self-interference of a single long-period fiber grating

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E83-C, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 287-292

  Lee, Habyeong ^a   Chung, Youngjoo ^a   Han, Won Taek ^a   Paek, Un Chul ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cascaded fiber grating; Fiber grating; Fiber sensor; Long period fiber grating; Temperature sensor

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS;

SELF-INTERFERING LONG-PERIOD FIBER GRATING (SILPG); TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 0033751642     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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15. B.H. Lee and J. Nishii, "Self-interference of a long-period fiber grating and its application as a temperature sensor," Electron. Lett., vol.34, no.21, pp.2059-2060, 1998. Byeong Ha Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Department of Physics of Seoul National University of Korea in 1984 and 1989, respectively. In University of Colorado at Boulder of USA, he received Ph.D. degree in Physics with the thesis title of "Absolute Strain Measurement using Fiber Bragg Grating." He worked in Osaka National Research Institute of Japan as a STA fellow during 1997 to 1999. He is now working as an Assis-tant Professor in the Department of Information and Communications of K-JIST (Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology) of Korea. His interests are in the field of fiber optics, fiber gratings, especially fiber optic devices for WDM communications and smart sensor systems. Youngjoo Chung was born in Pusan, Korea. He received the B.S. degree in physics from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He was with the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory between 1989 and 1996. He returned to Korea as an Associate Professor at Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology in 1996 and he is currently serving as the department chair. His research interests include fabrication of optical fiber gratings and device applications to optical communication, optical fiber sensors, and linear and nonlinear optical signal processing. Won-Taek Han received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea in 1979 and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1983, he was with Dong-A University, Korea as a Fulltime Instructor. After receiving the Ph.D. degree in glass science from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, U.S.A. in 1988, he moved to the Center for Glass Science and Technology in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York and worked as a Research Fellow from 1988 to 1991. In 1991, he returned to Korea and worked as the Head of the Glasses and Photonics Laboratory of the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the Department of Information and Communications, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea and currently he is an Associate Professor. His research interests are in the field of high performance glasses and photonics materials, glass fibers, fiber gratings, nonlinear optical glasses and their applications for the optical switching devices, and glass processings. Un-Chul Pack was born in Korea. He received the D.S. degree from Korea Merchant Marine Academy, Pusan, Korea in 1957. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965 and 1969, respectively. From 19G9 to 1991, he was with Bell Labs, Lucent (then AT&T), where he was a Member of the Technical Staff, a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and a Bell Labs Fellow. In 1991 he returned to Korea and became the Executive Vice President of Korea Academy of Industrial Technology. He is now a Professor of the Information and Communications Department, and the Director of the Research Center for Ultrafast Fiber-Optic Networks, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Kwangju, Korea. His research interests are in the areas of optical communications, optical fiber technology, and fabrication of optical devices and components. Dr. Pack is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of American Ceramic Society, and a member of Sigma Xi.