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Non-contact Detection of Ultrasonic Waves Using Fiber Optic Sagnac Interferometer (광섬유 Sagnac 간섭계를 이용한 초음파의 비접촉식 감지)

  • Lee, Jeong-Ju;Jang, Tae-Seong;Lee, Seung-Seok;Kim, Yeong-Gil;Gwon, Il-Beom;Lee, Wang-Ju
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.25 no.9
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    • pp.1400-1409
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    • 2001
  • This paper describes a fiber optic sensor suitable for non-contact detection of ultrasonic waves. This sensor is based on a fiber optic Sagnac interferometer. Quadrature phase bias between two interfering laser beams in Sagnac loop is introduced by a polarization controller. A stable quadrature phase bias can be confirmed by observing the interferometer output versus phase bias. This method eliminates a digital signal processing for detection of ultrasonic waves using Sagnac interferometer. Interference intensity is affected by the frequency of ultrasonic waves and the time delay of Sagnac loop. Collimator is attached to the end of the probing fiber to focus the light beam onto the specimen surface and to collect the reflected light back into the fiber probe. Ultrasonic waves produced by conventional ultrasonic transducers are detected. This fiber optic sensor based on Sagnac interferometer is very effective for detection of small displacement with high frequency such as ultrasonic waves used in conventional non-destructive testing.

Analysis of Sagnac Loop Band-pass Filter in Incorporating Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG를 삽입한 사냑 루프 대역 통과 필터의 해석)

  • Jung, Eun-Joo;Jeong, Myung-Yung;Kim, Chang-Seok
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.105-110
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    • 2007
  • A tunable band-pass filter of fiber Bragg gratings incorporating the Sagnac loop interferometer configuration is presented. The proposed band-pass filter with extinction ratio 20 dB has practical advantages in terms of price and performance in comparison with the conventional band-pass filter using a circulator.

Demodulation of FBG and Acoustic Sensors Embedded in a Fiber-Optic Sagnac Loop (광섬유 사낙간섭계에 삽입된 광섬유격자센서와 음향센서의 복조)

  • Kim, Hyun-Jin;Lee, June-Ho;Song, Min-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.44-50
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    • 2012
  • When the fiber Bragg gratings are embedded in a fiber-optic Sagnac loop for measuring temperature or strain, it is difficult to separate the Bragg wavelengths. The transmitted light is mixed with the reflected Bragg wavelengths in the photo-detector, working as noises. To suppress the noises, we placed the FBG sensors and a fiber-optic attenuator at asymmetric positions in the loop. With the arrangement the reflected light became much bigger than the transmitted light, enabling the separation of the reflected Bragg wavelengths with almost the same signal-to-noise ratio of the FBG sensors outside the loop.

Polarimetric Fiber Pressure Sensor Incorporating Polarization-Diversity-Loop-Based Sagnac Interferometer (편광상이 고리 구조 기반 사냑 간섭계를 이용한 편광 간섭형 광섬유 압력 센서)

  • Ryu, Uh-Chan;Choi, Sung Wook;Lee, Yong Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we demonstrated a polarimetric fiber pressure sensor using a polarization-diversity-loop-based Sagnac interferometer(PDLSI) composed of polarization-maintaining fiber(PMF) and a fiber Bragg grating(FBG). In order to compare the pressure sensitivity for various kinds of PMF, three kinds of bow-tie PMF were employed as sensor heads. The maximum pressure sensitivity was measured as approximately -15.07nm/MPa, and an R2 value to represent sensor linearity was measured as ~0.992 at the sensor system using corresponding PMF over a pressure range of 0-0.3MPa. An FBG was utilized and located adjacent to the PMF segment for compensating temperature-induced errors in the measurement of pressure. The pressure sensitivity of the proposed sensor was improved by approximately four times compared with the previously reported pressure sensor based on polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber.

Applied Sound Frequency Monitoring in the Transformer Oil Using Fiber Optic Sagnac Interferometer (사냑형 간섭계 광섬유 센서를 이용한 변압기유 내에서의 외부 음향 주파수 모니터링)

  • Lee, Jongkil;Lee, Seunghong
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.288-294
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    • 2015
  • The fiber optic Sagnac interferometer is well established as a sensor for detection of physical perturbations such as acoustic and vibration. In this paper acoustic signals generated in the cylindrical cavity submerged in transformer oil were measured by the fiber optic sensor array in one Sagnac loop. Two different external sound frequencies, $f_1$ and $f_2$, were applied to the sensor array simultaneously by using piezoelectric with frequency range from 5 kHz to 90 kHz. Based on the experimental results, fiber optic sensor detected harmonic series of applied sound frequency such as $f_1$, $f_2$, $2f_1$, $2f_2$, ${\mid}f_1-f_2{\mid}$, ${\mid}f_1+f_2{\mid}$. Suggested fiber optic sensor array can be applied to monitor physical quantities such as internal sound pressure and vibration due to partial discharge in the real electric transformer system.

Fiber vibration sensor using Sagnac interferometer based on polarization-diversity loop (편광상이 고리 기반 사냑 간섭계를 이용한 광섬유 진동 센서)

  • Jeong, Jun Hyeog;Lee, Yong Wook
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.1261-1262
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    • 2015
  • 본 논문에서는 PDLS 기반 사냑 간섭계를 사용하여 편광 간섭형 광섬유 진동 센서를 제안하였다. LD와 PD는 빠른 속도로 변하는 세기를 측정하기 위해 사용하였다. PZT를 사용하여 1~3000 Hz까지의 주파수 진동측정이 이루어졌으며 차단 주파수는 ~2100 Hz 였다. 그리고 단위 길이와 단위 스트레인 당 위상 이동은 ${\sim}3.48mrad/({\mu}{\varepsilon}{\cdot}m$)였으며, 최소 검출 가능한 스트레인 섭동은 2000 Hz에서 ${\sim}460p{\varepsilon}/Hz^{1/2}$이었다.

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Fiber Optic Interferometer Simulator (광섬유 간섭계 시뮬레이터)

  • Yang, Mun-Sang;Chong, Kyoung-Ho;Do, Jae-Chul;Lee, Young-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.411-414
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    • 2008
  • The study is about simulation of optical circuit for oneself performance evaluation of Fiber Optic Gyro(FOG) closed-loop controller board. The Fiber Optic Interferometer Simulator is used a digital signal processing for cosine response specificity output of fiber optic coil about input rate. Response specificity of the fiber optic coil is $Vo(t)=K3[1+\cos\{K1(Vm(t)-Vm(t-{\tau}))+K2\}]$. Also the Fiber Optic Interferometer Simulator is able to confirm a output value with K1, K2 and K3 input. The fiber Optic Interferometer Simulator is able to oneself performance evaluation without fiber optical circuit. Because, it is the very same cosine response specificity of real fiber optic coil about input rate.

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