Long period grating directional bend sensor based on asymmetric index modification of cladding

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 59-60

  Allsop, T ^a   Dubov, M ^a   Martinez, A ^a   Floreani, F ^a   Khrushchev, I ^a   Webb, D J ^a   Bennion, I ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; STANDARDS; WAVEGUIDES;

CONCAVE BENDING; CURVATURE SENSORS; LONG PERIOD GRATING (LPG); TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM;

SENSORS;

EID: 13844266732     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20056996     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Erdogan, T.: 'Cladding-mode resonances in short- and long-period fibre grating filters', J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 1997, 4, (8), pp. 1760-1773
2. Kersey, A.D., et al.: 'Fibre grating sensors', J. Lightwave Technol., 1997, 15, (8), pp. 1442-1462
3. Allsop, T., et al.: 'Embedded progressive three layered fibre long-period gratings for respiratory monitoring'. SPIE Biomedical Optics, 2003
4. Allsop, T., et al.: 'The spectral characteristics of long period gratings written in D-shaped optical fiber as bending sensors'. OFS2003, Nara, Japan, October 2003, Paper TuP-8
5. Patrick, H.J.: 'Self-aligning, bipolar bend transducer based on long period grating written in eccentric core fibre', Electron. Lett., 2000, 36, (21), pp. 1763-1764
6. Martinez, A., et al.: 'Point by point FBG inscription by a focused NIR femtosecond laser'. OSA Conf. Proc. CLEO/IQEC and PhAST, Washington, DC, USA, 2004, Paper CMY6
7. Du, W., Tam, H., Liu, M., and Tao, X.: 'Long-period grating bending sensors in laminated composite structures'. SPIE Conf. Proc. Smart structures and materials, San Diego, 1998, (SPIE), Vol. 3330, p. 284
8. Heiblum, M., and Harris, J.H.: 'Analysis of curved optical waveguides by conformal transformation', Quantum Electron., 1975, QE-11, (2), pp. 75-83