An etched fiber optic vibration sensor to monitor the simply supported beam

Kishore Putha; Dantala Dinakar; Pachava V. Rao; Dipankar Sengupta; K. Srimannarayana; M. Sai Shankar

doi:10.1117/12.922176

9 May 2012 An etched fiber optic vibration sensor to monitor the simply supported beam

Kishore Putha, Dantala Dinakar, Pachava V. Rao, Dipankar Sengupta, K. Srimannarayana, M. Sai Shankar

Proceedings Volume 8439, Optical Sensing and Detection II; 84392F (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922176
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2012, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

A single mode fiber optic vibration senor is designed and demonstrated to monitor the vibration of a simply supported beam. A rectangular beam (length 30.8 cm, width 2.5cm and thickness 0.5mm) made of spring-steel is arranged as simply supported beam and is made to vibrate periodically. To sense the vibrations a telecommunication fiber is chemically etched such that its diameter reaches 50μm and is glued using an epoxy at the centre of the beam. A broadband light (1550nm) is launched into Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) through a circulator. The light reflected by the FBG (1540.32nm) is coupled into the centre etched fibre through the circulator and is detected by photodiode connected to a transimpedance amplifier. The electrical signal is logged into the computer through NI-6016 DAQ. The sensor works on transmission power loss due to the mode volume mismatch and flexural strain (field strength) of the fiber due to the bending in the fiber with respect to the bending of the spring-steel beam. The beam is made to vibrate and the corresponding intensity of light is recorded. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) technique is used to measure the frequencies of vibration. The results show that this sensor can sense vibration of low frequency accurately and repeatability is high. The sensor has high linear response to axial displacement of about 0.8 mm with sensitivity of 32mV/10μm strain. This lowcost sensor may find a place in industry to monitor the vibrations of the beam structures and bridges.

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Kishore Putha, Dantala Dinakar, Pachava V. Rao, Dipankar Sengupta, K. Srimannarayana, and M. Sai Shankar "An etched fiber optic vibration sensor to monitor the simply supported beam", Proc. SPIE 8439, Optical Sensing and Detection II, 84392F (9 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922176

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