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Optical Fiber Sensors: Optical Sources

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The extensive range of optical fiber sensors available places considerable demands on the illumination used (and the associated detectors) and a wide variety of optical sources may be employed to energize these sensor devices. For example, in the simplest types of optical sensors, such as those using shutter arrangements [1], the selection of the most appropriate type of illumination is relatively easy due to the limited constraints that there are upon the nature of the source itself. By contrast, in distributed optical fiber sensors using time-domain reflectometry [2], the requirement is for a light beam which only is available from sophisticated short pulse high power lasers, and spectroscopic sensors in particular require high spectral brightness to be effective [3].

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Grattan, K.T.V. (2000). Optical Fiber Sensors: Optical Sources. In: Grattan, K.T.V., Meggitt, B.T. (eds) Optical Fiber Sensor Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6081-1_7

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