High performance fibre optic accelerometers

被引:25
作者
Vohra, ST
Danver, B
Tveten, A
Dandridge, A
机构
[1] US Naval Research Laboratory, Optical Science Division, Code 5674, Washington
关键词
fibre optics sensors; accelerometers;
D O I
10.1049/el:19970087
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The authors report the design and performance of fully packaged, field ruggedised, high performance fibre optic (FO) accelerometers. Appropriate design considerations have resulted in FO accelerometers with many desirable engineering features which include: (i) high sensitivity (>20 dB re rad/g), (ii) low noise (<1 micro-g root Hz at 1 kHz) (iii) broad frequency response (100 Hz to 14 kHz), (iv) low sensitivity io extraneous measurands (e.g. static pressure sensitivity <-200 dB re rad/mu Pa), (v) small size (<35 gms total, and (vi) low cross-axis sensitivity (<-35dB). Single device or arrays of such devices can be incorporated in many structural and vibration sensing applications at low cost.
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页码:155 / 157
页数:3
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