Refractometric sensor based on a phase-shifted long-period fiber grating

A refractometric sensor based on a phase-shifted long-period fiber grating written by electric-arc discharges is presented. Transmission and reflective configurations for refractive index measurements are studied. It is observed that the reflective topology permits better performance compared with the transmission one, which is the approach normally utilized in the context of long-period fiber sensing. The resolution achieved in the measurement of refractive index enables the application of this sensing head structure in demanding situations, such as the measurement of the level of salinity of water.     

Single-crystal magneto-optic sensor with electrically adjustable sensitivity

A novel magneto-optic sensor with electrically adjustable sensitivity is proposed that is based on the approximate multiplication correlation between the linear electro-optic phase retardation and the Faraday magneto-optic rotation angle in a single bismuth germanate crystal. The measurement sensitivity and its temperature stability, linear and monotonic measurement ranges of the proposed sensor can be controlled in real time by adjusting the modulating voltage applied to the sensing crystal. In particular, the proposed sensor can be used for the precise measurement of dc magnetic field or dc current. The basic sensing performance is theoretically analyzed and experimentally demonstrated by dc current measurement.     

A multi-purpose reflective fiber optic sensor

Fiber optic sensors, including reflective ones, have widespread applications in sensing technology. In this study, we first formulated the gain of a general reflective fiber optic sensor in terms of five major sensor parameters, and for two patterns of input intensity: namely uniform and Gaussian. By using these formulae, we have analyzed and plotted the variations of gain versus one or two of these parameters. The results obtained have exact compatibility for the two patterns of input intensity, although they have been obtained by different methods. The results can be suitably used in the optimum design of a wide variety of reflective fiber optic sensors.     

Plasmonic Metasurfaces Based on Nanopin‐Cavity Resonator for Quantitative Colorimetric Ricin Sensing

In view of the toxic potential of a bioweapon threat, rapid visual recognition and sensing of ricin has been of considerable interest while remaining a challenging task up to date. In this study, a gold nanopin‐based colorimetric sensor is developed realizing a multicolor variation for ricin qualitative recognition and analysis. It is revealed that such plasmonic metasurfaces based on nanopin‐cavity resonator exhibit reflective color appearance, due to the excitation of standing‐wave resonances of narrow bandwidth in visible region. This clear color variation is a consequence of the reflective color mixing defined by different resonant wavelengths. In addition, the colored metasurfaces appear sharp color difference in a narrow refractive index range, which makes them especially well‐suited for sensing applications. Therefore, this antibody‐functionalized nanopin‐cavity biosensor features high sensitivity and fast response, allowing for visual quantitative ricin detection within the range of 10–120 ng mL^?1 (0.15 × 10^?9–1.8 × 10^?9 m ), a limit of detection of 10 ng mL^?1, and the typical measurement time of less than 10 min. The on‐chip integration of such nanopin metasurfaces to portable colorimetric microfluidic device may be envisaged for the quantitative studies of a variety of biochemical molecules.     

Multiplexing Scheme for Self-Interfering Long-Period Fiber Gratings Using a Low-Coherence Reflectometry

A novel multiplexing scheme based on a low-coherence reflectometry (LCR) is proposed for a sensing array (in parallel) of self-interfering long-period fiber gratings (SI-LPGs). Each SI-LPG sensor consists of an LPG and a section of fiber with a highly reflective end (mirror). The spectral information of each LPG is sensitive to some parameters of the surrounding measurand and can be reconstructed from the corresponding subreflectograms (obtained by the LCR) through a fast Fourier transformation. The sensing signals of multiple SI-LPG sensors can be multiplexed if the length of the fiber section in each sensor is set to a different value. Experiments of measuring the surrounding temperature at different sensors are demonstrated to show the good performance of our multiplexing system.     

反射式灰阶测试卡测量装置及方法研究

为解决评价摄影图像质量用反射式灰阶测试卡的量值溯源问题,利用实验室现有测试仪器搭建了光学测试平台,并提出了一种简单、可行的测试方案。在卤素灯光路侧加装平行光管作为光源,采用双轴步进电机和基于PCI接口的微机内置式PCI试验卡,实现45°/0°转角系统自动控制。选用光谱分光辐射度计作为接收单元,用已知标准值的标准白板做标准,采用相对测量法,实现反射式光密度无接触测量。实验数据分析表明:用该装置测量TE-108型反射式灰阶测试卡的测量结果与出厂值之间的光密度值最大示值误差仅为0.02,装置的可靠性和测量方法的可行性均较高,同时证明了被测反射式灰阶测试卡的印刷质量较好,可为后续的研究工作提供有价值的参考。     

Liquid crystal infiltrated photonic crystal fibers for electric field intensity measurements

The application of nematic liquid crystal infiltrated photonic crystal fiber as a sensor for electric field intensity measurement is demonstrated. The device is based on an intrinsic sensing mechanism for electric fields. The sensor probe, which consists of a 1 cm infiltrated section of photonic crystal fiber with a lateral size of ～125 μm, is very compact with small size and weight. A simple all-fiber design for the sensor is employed in an intensity based measurement scheme. The transmitted and reflected power of the infiltrated photonic crystal fiber is shown to have a linear response with the applied electric field. The sensor is operated in the telecommunication window at 1550 nm. The temperature dependence of the device at this operating wavelength is also experimentally studied and discussed. These structures can be used to accurately measure electric field intensity and can be used for the fabrication of all-fiber sensors for high electric field environments as both an in-line and reflective type point sensor.     

反射式Sagnac型光纤宽带大电流测量仪的研制与性能评估

为解决大型装备电焊和电镀装置的大电流量值传递及在线校准的难题,研制了一种反射式Sagnac型光纤电流互感器样机(光纤宽带大电流测量仪)。采用了线性双折射抑制、温敏变比自补偿、数字闭环信号检测等关键技术,对柔性光纤敏感头进行了优化设计。对样机进行了主要技术性能验证测试,试验结果表明,在所述试验条件下的测量准确度优于±0.2%,温度、振动、磁场变化下变比误差皆小于±0.2%,频率响应1kHz衰减0.14%,-3dB带宽大于10kHz,验证了测量仪的可靠性及在线校准大电流的适用性。样机测量结果的相对扩展不确定度为0.10%,测量仪的精度等级达到了0.2级。     

Designing low-cost modified cladding sensors: a structured approach

In this paper, a novel solution for signal conditioning, fiber illumination, and measurement is proposed for an optical fiber sensor based on a modified cladding sensing element. The presented technique has properties of compactness and low cost, due to the use of very common optoelectronic components, and flexibility, since it could be employed for different kinds of optical fiber sensors. In particular, a prototype has been realized and characterized for the measurement of liquid temperature.     

Multiplexed sensing based on Brownian relaxation of magnetic nanoparticles using a compact AC susceptometer

A novel multiplexed sensing scheme based on the measurement of the magnetic susceptibility of the affinity captured target molecules on magnetic nanoparticles in liquid suspension is proposed. The AC magnetic susceptibility provides a measurement of Brownian relaxation behavior of biomolecules bound to magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) that is related to its hydrodynamic size. A room temperature, compact AC susceptometer is designed and developed to measure complex AC magnetic susceptibility of such magnetic nanoparticles. The AC susceptometer exhibits high sensitivity in magnetic fields as low as 10 μT for 1 mg ml(-1) concentration and 5 μl volume, and is fully software programmable. The capability of biological sensing using the proposed scheme has been demonstrated in proof of principle using the binding of biotinylated horseradish peroxidase (HRP) to streptavidin-coated MNPs. The proposed technique and instrument are readily compatible with lab-on-chip applications for point-of-care medical applications.     

Bragg光栅式应变传感器的传感特性研究

光纤Bragg光栅是一种新型的传感元件,其原理是利用波长解调的方法将被测的信号转化为光栅反射波长的偏移量,同时反射波长不受入射光的功率波动或光路系统损耗的影响。光纤Bragg光栅应变式传感器因此具备良好的可靠性、不受电磁干扰、不易腐蚀,同时最大的优点是在一根光纤上将多个光纤光栅应变传感器串接组成构成阵列开展分布式测量等优点,在逐渐应用于各类力学检测领域。本文着重对光纤Bragg光栅温度和应变的传感特性简要介绍并进行试验分析.     

Simple three-dimensional laser angle sensor for three-dimensional small-angle measurement

A simple three-dimensional (3D) laser angle sensor for 3D measurement of small angles based on the diffraction theorem and on ray optics analysis is presented. The possibility of using position-sensitive detectors and a reflective diffraction grating to develop a 3D angle sensor was investigated and a prototype 3D laser angle sensor was designed and built. The system is composed of a laser diode, two position-sensitive detectors, and a reflective diffraction grating. The diffraction grating, mounted upon the rotational center of a 3D rotational stage, divides an incident laser beam into several diffracted rays, and two position-sensitive detectors are set up for detecting the positions of +/-1st-order diffracted rays. According to the optical path relationship between the three angular motions and the output coordinates of the two position-sensitive detectors, the 3D angles can be obtained through kinematic analysis. The experimental results show the feasibility of the proposed 3D laser angular sensor. Use of this system as an instrument for high-resolution measurement of small-angle rotation is proposed.     

Multichannel biosensing platform of surface-immobilized gold nanospheres for linear and nonlinear optical imaging

What we believe to be a new label-free multichannel biosensing platform is proposed. It is composed of surface-immobilized gold nanospheres (SIGNs) above a gold surface with a nanogap supported by a merocyanine self-assembled monolayer. The circular SIGN spots with a diameter of 120 microm were arrayed for multichannel biosensing on a glass slide. Two kinds of sensing methods were examined: One is a reflectivity measurement of a blue ray and the other is a second-harmonic generation measurement. It was found that the SIGN system can be used as a promising platform for multichannel biosensing in both sensing methods.     

基于压缩感知的多中继协作通信系统稀疏信道估计算法研究

提出了一种基于压缩感知理论的多中继协作通信系统稀疏信道估计方法.采用正交匹配追踪（Orthogonal Matching Pursuit,OMP）压缩感知算法,对时域信道脉冲响应进行估计.对多中继协作通信系统进行稀疏建模;结合压缩感知理论构建观测矩阵,并给出卷积信道的稀疏表示;利用压缩信道感知算法重建了系统的卷积复合信道.仿真结果表明,与传统的最小二乘法（Least Square,LS）相比,采用压缩感知理论的信道估计算法,能利用较少的导频信号获得很好的信道估计性能,提高了频谱利用率.     

Carbon Nanotube Sensing Skins for Spatial Strain and Impact Damage Identification

Impact damage, excessive loading, and corrosion have been identified as critical and long-term problems that constantly threaten the integrity and reliability of structural systems (e.g., civil infrastructures, aircrafts, and naval vessels). While a variety of sensing transducers have been proposed for structural health monitoring, most sensors only offer measurement of structural behavior at discrete structural locations. Here, a conformable carbon nanotube-polyelectrolyte sensing skin fabricated via the layer-by-layer technique is proposed to monitor strain and impact damage over spatial areas. Specifically, electrical impedance tomographical (EIT) conductivity mapping techniques are employed to offer two-dimensional damage maps from which damage location and severity can be easily and accurately quantified. This study deposits carbon nanotube-based sensing skins upon metallic structural plates with electrodes installed along the plate boundary. Based on boundary electrical measurements, EIT mapping captures both strain in the underlying substrate as well as damage (e.g., permanent deformation and cracking) introduced using an impact apparatus.     

Emissitivity spectra obtained from field and laboratory measurements using the temperature and emissivity separation algorithm

Surface emissivities play an important role in thermal remote sensing, since knowledge of them is required to estimate land surface temperature with enough accuracy. They are also important in other environmental or geological studies. We show the results obtained for the emissivity spectra of different natural surfaces (water, green, and senescent vegetation) by applying the temperature and emissivity separation (TES) algorithm to ground-based measurements collected at the field with a multiband thermal radiometer. The results have been tested with data included in spectral libraries, and rms errors lower than 0.01 have been found, except for senescent vegetation. Two methods are also proposed to apply the TES algorithm to measurements achieved in the laboratory: (i) by heating the sample and (ii) using a box with reflective walls.     

多级映射原理在符号化测量中的应用

本文提出了实现数值－符号转换的一种新方法，多级映射法，多级映射原理对于扩大符号表示概念的范围和细致程度非常有用，可用以实现数值和符号测量，并同时对传感器进行非线性修正，该方法在以热偶为低感温元件的模糊温度传感器上的应用表明，多级映射原理是可行和有效的。     

Model for quantifying photoelastic fringe degradation by imperfect retroreflective backings

In any automated algorithm for interpreting photoelastic fringe patterns it is necessary to understand and quantify sources of error in the measurement system. We have been considering how the various components of the coating affect the photoelastic measurement, because this source of error has received fairly little attention in the literature. Because the reflective backing is not a perfect retroreflector, it does not preserve the polarization of light and thereby introduces noise into the measurement that depends on the angle of obliqueness and roughness of the reflective surface. This is of particular concern in resolving the stress tensor through the combination of thermoelasticity and photoelasticity where the components are sensitive to errors in the principal angle and difference of the principal stresses. We have developed a physical model that accounts for this and other sources of measurement error to be introduced in a systematic way so that the individual effects on the fringe patterns can be quantified. Simulations show altered photoelastic fringes when backing roughness and oblique incident angles are incorporated into the model.     

Multiplex in-cylinder pressure measurement utilizing an optical fiber with specific refractive-index composition

An approach to multiplex in-cylinder pressure measurement that utilizes a single-mode optical fiber with specific refractive-index composition has been proposed. The sensing fiber has been designed to show a certain amount of optical power loss with a small change in the fiber-local-bend radius. Along with pressure-transferring diaphragms the sensing fiber was embedded into the head gasket of a four-cylinder gasoline engine. The internal-pressure change in each combustion chamber was detected on the basis of bending power loss in the fiber. Combustion pressure peaks for each cylinder were clearly observed.     

Dual-Mode Capacitive Proximity Sensor for Robot Application: Implementation of Tactile and Proximity Sensing Capability on a Single Polymer Platform Using Shared Electrodes

In this paper, we report a flexible dual-mode capacitive sensor for robot applications which has two sensing capabilities in a single platform; tactile and proximity sensing capability. The sensor consists of a mechanical structure based on PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane) and a mesh of multiple copper electrode strips. The mesh is composed of 16 top and 16 bottom copper strips crossed each other to form a 16 $,times,$16 capacitor array. The proposed sensor is able to switch its function from tactile sensing to proximity sensing or vice versa by reconfiguring the connection of electrodes. The tactile sensing capability has been demonstrated already and reported in our previous paper (Lee , 2006); therefore, in this paper, we will demonstrate the feasibility of the proximity sensing capability and the dual-mode operation of the proposed sensor in detail. The capacitance change caused by an approaching object has been estimated through simulation of multiple two-dimensional models as an initial study. The measured data have shown similar trends with the simulation results. We tested various materials from conducting metals to a human hand for proximity measurement. The fabricated sensor could detect a human hand at a distance up to 17 cm away from the sensor. We also have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of dual-mode operation of the proposed sensor in real-time exploiting a custom designed PCB, a data acquisition pad, and Labview software.