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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1998
James S Sirkis, Burtonsville, MD (US);
Harmeet Singh, Simsbury, CT (US);
University of Maryland, College Park, MD (US);
Abstract
Cascaded waveguide sensors with different sensitivities to temperature and strain produce independent temperature and strain measurements. In one embodiment a first sensor is formed of a first optical material having a corresponding first sensible thermomechanical response and a second sensor is formed of a second optical material having a corresponding second sensible thermomechanical response. The first and second thermomechanical responses are sufficiently different so as to produce independent temperature and strain measurements. Particular embodiments employ intrinsic or extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometers (IFP, EFP),sensors, in-line fiber etalon (ILFE) sensor and a fiber-optic Bragg grating.