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