Subject Code: EC6L019 Name: Fibre Optic Sensors L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Optical fiber sensors and devices: overview of fibre optic sensors – advantages over conventional sensors, broadband classification, light sources, spatial light modulator, detection process in the fourier domain, system performance parameter

Introduction: intensity modulated optical fibre sensors, intensity modulation through light interruption shutter, multimode fibre optic sensors – reflective fibre optic sensors, evanescent wave fibre sensors, microbend optical fibre sensors, fibre optic refractometers, intensity modulated fibre optic thermometers, distributed sensing with fibre optics.
interferometric optical fibre sensors: introduction, basic principles of interferometric optical fibre sensors, components and applications of interferometric sensors.
Fibre optic sensor multiplexing: introduction, general topological configuration, and incoherent and coherent detection.

signal processing in monomode fibre optic sensor systems: introduction, transduction mechanisms, optical signal processing, electronic processing, industrial applications of fiber optic sensors, fiber optic smart structures and their applications.

Prerequisite: None

Text/Reference Books:
  1. Optical Fiber Communications – Gerd Keiser, 4th Ed. McGraw Hill.
  2. Fundamentals of Fibre Optics in Telecommunication and Sensor Systems – Bishnu P PAL Wiley Eastern Ltd. (1994).
  3. David A. Krohn, “Fiber Optic Sensors: Fundamentals and Applications, Isa, 2000
  4. Andreas Othonos, Kyriacos Kalli “Fiber Bragg gratings: fundamentals and applications in telecommunications and sensing”, Artech House, 1999,
  5. Francis T.S. Yu, Shizhuo Yin “Fiber Optic Sensors”, Second Edition CRC Press, CRC Press, 2002
  6. IEEE Sensors Journal