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Title: | Novel accelerometer realized by a polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber for railway monitoring applications | Authors: | Liu, ZY Htein, L Gunawardena, DS Chung, WH Lu, C Lee, KK Tam, HY |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Source: | Optics express, 22 July 2019, v. 27, no. 15, p. 21597-21607 | Abstract: | In this paper, we present a novel accelerometer based on the Sagnac interferometer configuration using a polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF), which has a sensitivity of similar to 8 pm/G, and a resonant frequency exceeding 2.5 kHz. The proposed accelerometer is capable of functioning with a constant sensitivity in a large frequency range from 0 to 1 kHz which is much wider than many FBG-based accelerometers. Experimental results obtained from a field test in railway monitoring, demonstrate a broader frequency range for the proposed accelerometer compared to that of the FBG based accelerometer and is comparable to the conventional piezoelectric sensor. The abrupt change in the acceleration measured by the sensor aids in locating any defect or crack present on the railway track. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of an accelerometer based on a fiber interferometer aimed for the railway industry. The proposed accelerometer operating at high accelerations (>40 G) and capable of functioning at a broad frequency range, shows significant potential in being used in applications which require detection of strong and fast vibrations, especially in structural health monitoring of trains and railway tracks in real time. | Publisher: | Optical Society of America | Journal: | Optics express | EISSN: | 1094-4087 | DOI: | 10.1364/OE.27.021597 | Rights: | © 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement (https://www.osapublishing.org/library/license_v1.cfm#VOR-OA) © 2019 Optical Society of America. Users may use, reuse, and build upon the article, or use the article for text or data mining, so long as such uses are for non-commercial purposes and appropriate attribution is maintained. All other rights are reserved. Journal © 2019 The following publication Zhengyong Liu, Lin Htein, Dinusha Serandi Gunawardena, Weng-Hong Chung, Chao Lu, Kang-Kuen Lee, and Hwa-Yaw Tam, "Novel accelerometer realized by a polarization-maintaining photonic crystal fiber for railway monitoring applications," Opt. Express 27, 21597-21607 (2019) is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.021597 |
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