Optical Fiber Sensors

Index

A

Absorption, noise source, 59

Accelerometers, 86–87, 191–192

Acetylene sensors, 136–137

Acid-etching technique, 183

AC-OFCS, see Active core optical fiber chemical sensor (AC-OFCS)

Acoustic optical fiber sensors, 64, 66

Acoustic phonons, 311, 337–338

Acoustic sensor, 192

Acoustic waves, 26, 192

acoustic frequency, 280–281

Brillouin scattering, 336

dispersion curves, 279

mode propagation, 279–280

phase velocities, 279–280

properties, 338

rodlike structures, 278

space-time dependent displacement function, 278–279

trigonometric functions, 279

Acousto-optic interaction

in fiber gratings (see Fiber gratings)

in fibers

acoustic filter bandwidth, 289

acoustic gratings, 288

acousto-optic coupling coefficient, 287

coupled-mode equations, 287