General-purpose photoelastic fiber optic accelerometer

Wei Su; John A. Gilbert; Mark D. Morrissey; Yuehong Song

doi:10.1117/1.601165

1 January 1997 General-purpose photoelastic fiber optic accelerometer

Wei Su, John A. Gilbert, Mark D. Morrissey, Yuehong Song

Optical Engineering, Vol. 36, Issue 1, (January 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601165

This paper describes a general-purpose photoelastic fiber optic accelerometer having a sensitivity of 2 V/g and a resolution of 2.5 mg over a frequency range extending from 0 to 600 Hz. The unit has a linear amplitude range of 0 to 5g and is sealed in an aluminum case having outside dimensions of 41 mm335 mm320 mm. It relies on a force transducer made from an optically birefringent material and measurements are made based on the principles of photoelasticity. A low-cost LED is employed as an incoherent light source; multimode optical fibers with a hard plastic cladding are used to transmit signals between the transducer and the conditioning electronics.

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Wei Su, John A. Gilbert, Mark D. Morrissey, and Yuehong Song "General-purpose photoelastic fiber optic accelerometer," Optical Engineering 36(1), (1 January 1997). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601165

Published: 1 January 1997

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