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Review of a Custom-Designed Optical Sensing System for Aero-Engine Applications
(MDPI, 2021-02-25)
Fibre bundle-based reflective optical sensors are good candidates for parameter monitorisation in aero engines. Tip clearance is one of those parameters of great concern that is necessary to monitor. Within this optical ...
Design and Development of a Low-Cost Optical Current Sensor
(MDPI, 2013-10)
In this paper we demonstrate the design of a low-cost optical current sensor. The sensor principle is the Faraday rotation of a light beam through a magneto-optical material, SF2, when a magnetic field is present. The ...
Influence of Humidity on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
(Hindawi, 2014-01)
We demonstrate the influence of the relative humidity (RH) on the wavelength of fiber Bragg grating sensors (FBGS), performing tests with five FBGS at different humidity and temperature conditions. These tests were performed ...
Sensing Applications in Aircrafts Using Polymer Optical Fibres
(MDPI, 2021-05-21)
We report on recent advances in the use of inexpensive polymer optical fibres (POFs) for sensing applications in avionics. The sensors analysed in this manuscript take advantage of the unique properties of polymers, such ...
Optical Tip Clearance Measurements as a Tool for Rotating Disk Characterization
(MDPI, 2017-01)
An experimental investigation on the vibrational behavior of a rotating disk by means of three optical fiber sensors is presented. The disk, which is a scale model of the real disk of an aircraft engine, was assembled in ...
Geometric optics analysis of inverted graded index fibers
(IOP, 2022)
We derive a general solution based on geometric optics that describes the light propagation properties in multimode optical fibers with inverted refractive index profiles. Using this general solution, we classify rays ...
Optical Fiber Sensors for Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring
(MDPI, 2015-06)
Aircraft structures require periodic and scheduled inspection and maintenance operations due to their special operating conditions and the principles of design employed to develop them. Therefore, structural health monitoring ...
Study of the Influence of Various Stress-Based Mechanisms on Polarization of an SM mPOF for the Development of Useful Devices
(IEEE, 2017-07-15)
In contrast to conventional polymer optical fibres (POFs), single-mode microstructured POFs (SM mPOF) exhibit polarization properties that make them potentially interesting for their use in the design and development of ...