ABSTRACT

This reference presents a comprehensive account of the recent advances and research in fiber optic sensor technology. It offers a progressive history of each sensor type as well as basic principles and fundamental building blocks for practical applications in the electrical aerospace, defense and manufacturing, smart structure, undersea surveillanc

An overview of fiber-optic sensors; Fabry-Perot fiber sensors; fiber Bragg-grating sensor; fiber distributive sensors; fiber Gyroscoe sensor; fiber-optic smart structure; fiber-spectrogram sensors; polarizaton preserving fiber-optics; multi-mode fiber-optic sensors; applications of fiber-optic sensors.