Fiber Optic Sensors: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists, 2nd Edition

Since the technology has moved strongly into a number of different areas a textbook of this sort could be used by a wide variety of academic departments including physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, aerospace engineering and bioengineering.#xA0; To make the second edition as widely appealing as possible a series of significant upgrades are planned.#xA0; 1.#xA0; The book will be structured to support a variety of academic programs 2.#xA0; Fundamental components and optical concepts will be supported by a new chapter on sensor concepts and upgrades/updates of the chapters on optical fiber, light sources, detectors and modulators.#xA0; #xA0;#xA0; 3.#xA0; Each of the existing fiber optic sensor chapters will be updated with major upgrades of the fiber etalon and intensity sensor based chapter that will split into two.#xA0; A new chapter will be introduced on fiber grating sensors and Brillouin distributed sensing.#xA0; 4.#xA0; The #x1C;application#x1D; chapters of the first edition will be updated and new application chapters introduced on fiber biosensors and fiber optic civil structures.#xA0; The fiber optic smart structure chapter will be extensively rewritten.#xA0; 5.#xA0; Questions will be added to the chapters that will serve to support traditional undergraduate and graduate level courses