Fiber Optic Sensors : An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists

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.  To make the second edition as widely appealing as possible a series of significant upgrades are planned.  1.  The book will be structured to support a variety of academic programs 2.  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.     3.  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.  A new chapter will be introduced on fiber grating sensors and Brillouin distributed sensing.  4.  The ;application ; chapters of the first edition will be updated and new application chapters introduced on fiber biosensors and fiber optic civil structures.  The fiber optic smart structure chapter will be extensively rewritten.  5.  Questions will be added to the chapters that will serve to support traditional undergraduate and graduate level courses

ERIC UDD is President of Columbia Gorge Research, a company he founded in 2005 to promote fiber optic sensor technology. With over thirty years of experience in the fiber optic sensor field, he has made fundamental contributions to fiber rotation, acceleration, acoustic, pressure, strain, vibration, temperature, humidity, and corrosion sensors. Previously at McDonnell Douglas, Udd managed more than thirty government and commercial programs on fiber optic sensors. He has more than 150 publications and more than forty U.S. patents. Udd is a Fellow of McDonnell Douglas, SPIE, and the OSA. He received the David Richardson Medal from the OSA for work on fiber optic sensors and smart structures.

WILLIAM B. SPILLMAN Jr, PhD, has worked in the field of fiber optic sensors since its inception in the 1970s. He helped to conceive and develop fiber optic sensors based variously on frustrated total internal reflection, relative fiber motion, relative motion of two diffraction gratings, the photoelastic effect, modal interference, magneto-optic materials, and linearly chirped diffraction gratings. He has more than 180 publications and 46 U.S. patents. Dr. Spillman is a fellow of the SPIE and the Institute of Physics, and is the recipient of a Simmonds Precision Founders Award and a lifetime achievement award from the SPIE for his work in smart structures and materials.

Preface.

About the Authors.

Contributors.

1 The Emergence of Fiber Optic Sensor Technology (Eric Udd).

2 Optical Fibers (Daniel A. Nolan, Paul E. Blaszyk, and Eric Udd).

3 Light Sources (Eric Udd).

4 Optical Detectors (William B. Spillman, Jr.).

5 Optical Modulators for Fiber Optic Sensors (Leonard M. Johnson).

6 Intensity-Based and Fabry–Perot Interferometer Sensors (Gordon L. Mitchell).

7 Multimode Grating Sensors (William B. Spillman, Jr.).

8 Multimode Polarization Sensors (William B. Spillman, Jr.).

9 Fiber Optic Sensors Based on the Sagnac Interferometer and Passive Ring Resonator (Eric Udd).

10 Fiber Optic Sensors Based on the Mach–Zehnder and Michelson Interferometers (Anthony Dandridge).

11 Distributed and Multiplexed Fiber Optic Sensors (Alan D. Kersey).

12 Fiber Optic Magnetic Sensors (Frank Bucholtz).

13 Industrial Applications of Fiber Optic Sensors (John W. Berthold III).

14 Fiber Optic Smart Structures (Eric Udd).

15 Fiber Grating Sensors (Eric Udd).

16 Fiber Optic Biosensors (William B. Spillman, Jr.).

Index.