A Fibre-Optic Non-Contacting Reference Grade Vibration Sensor

B. T. Meggitt; A. C. Lewin; D. A. Jackson

doi:10.1117/12.961000

29 October 1989 A Fibre-Optic Non-Contacting Reference Grade Vibration Sensor

B. T. Meggitt, A. C. Lewin, D. A. Jackson

Proceedings Volume 1120, Fibre Optics '89; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.961000
Event: Sira/Fibre Optics '89, 1989, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

A non-contacting optical vibration sensor has been developed using a fibre-optic system that is suitable for use as a reference grade device. It is based around a fibre Michelson interferometer configuration in which an optical carrier is produced by imposing a sinusoidal phase modulation of specific amplitude in the interferometer and electronically gating and bandpass filtering the resulting output signal. In order to achieve a primary reference grade sensor, the carrier modulation induced by the vibrating surface is demodulated in the phase domain using a digital phase-tracker, and the time dependence of the surface displacement is recovered relative only to the wavelength of radiation used.

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B. T. Meggitt, A. C. Lewin, and D. A. Jackson "A Fibre-Optic Non-Contacting Reference Grade Vibration Sensor", Proc. SPIE 1120, Fibre Optics '89, (29 October 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.961000

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