Fiber Optic Sensing and Imaging

Description

This book is designed to highlight the basic principles of fiber optic imaging and sensing devices. The book provides the readers with a solid foundation in fiber optic imaging and sensing devices. The text begins with an introductory chapter that starts from Maxwell’s equations and ends with the derivation of the basic optical fiber characteristic equations and solutions (i.e. fiber modes). Also covered within are reviews of the most common fiber optic interferometric devices which are the basis for many fiber optic imaging and sensing systems. The author discusses the basics of fiber optic imagers with an emphasis on fiber optic confocal microscope. Including chapters on fiber Bragg grating based sensor and various applications and fiber Sagnac loop based sensors. The book also provides useful forms of device characteristic equations. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Optical Fibers....Pages 1-28 Fiber Optic Interferometric Devices....Pages 29-53 Fiber Optic Imagers....Pages 55-90 Optical Fiber Gratings for Mechanical and Bio-sensing....Pages 91-117 Sagnac Loop Sensors....Pages 119-146 Principles of Optical Coherence Tomography....Pages 147-171