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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2019
Optasense Holdings Limited, Farnborough, GB;
Alastair Godfrey, Farnborough, GB;
Robert Ellwood, Farnborough, GB;
Optasense Holdings Limited, Camberley, GB;
Abstract
A fibre optic cable structure () suitable for fibre optic sensing with an improved sensitivity to an environmental parameter is described. The structure () includes an optical fibre () and a bend inducer () responsive to the environmental parameter to control bending of the optical fibre. The bend inducer () is configured to adopt a first configuration, that induces a first curvature of the optical fibre, at a first value of the environmental parameter and to adopt a second configuration at a second, different, value of the environmental parameter that induces a second, different, curvature of the optical fibre. By action of the bend inducer () a change in value of the environmental parameter imparts a bending force on the optical fibre.