Transverse load sensing with a tilted fiber Bragg grating compressed between conforming elastomers

Li-Yang Shao; Jacques Albert

doi:10.1117/12.882207

17 May 2011 Transverse load sensing with a tilted fiber Bragg grating compressed between conforming elastomers

Li-Yang Shao, Jacques Albert

Proceedings Volume 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 77536O (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.882207
Event: 21st International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS21), 2011, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

A novel fiber optic transverse load sensor is experimentally demonstrated by using a 10° tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) compressed between two conforming elastomer layers, which has a high refractive index and low Young's modulus. The applied transverse loads increase the contact angle of optical fiber and conforming elastomers, which suppress the cladding modes coupling and introduce a broadband loss in the spectrum of the TFBG. Using fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis on a selected bandwidth of the transmission spectrum, it is found that the peak amplitude of the dominant spectral fringes decreases with the increasing transverse load with an near-linear sensitivity of 125 arbitrary unit/N (in the range of 0~6N). Finally, the temperature effect on the response of sensor has been investigated at a constant load of 3.8 N. The results show that the sensor is independent to temperature, with a maximum error of 2% from 25 °C to 75 °C.

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Li-Yang Shao and Jacques Albert "Transverse load sensing with a tilted fiber Bragg grating compressed between conforming elastomers", Proc. SPIE 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 77536O (17 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.882207

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