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Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensor Technology The field of optical fiber sensors continues to expand and develop, being increasingly influenced by new applications of the technologies that have been the topics of research for some years. In this way, the subject continues to mature and reach into new areas of engineering. This text in the series on Optical Fiber Sensor Technology provides a foundation for a better understanding of those developments in the basic science and its applications in fiber sensors, underpinning the subject today. This book builds upon the work in an earlier single volume which covered a broad area of the subject, but which now, in this, volume 1 of the series, focuses upon the fundamentals and essentials of the technology. Material which is included has been carefully reviewed and in most cases thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the current state of the subject, and provide an essential background for the more applications-oriented content of the subsequent volumes of the series. This volume opens with a status paper on optical fiber sensor technology, by Kenneth Grattan and Tong Sun providing in it a flavor of the main topics in the field and giving an essential overview at the sort of systems which are discussed in more detail in the other chapters in the whole series. An extensive publication list of readily accessible papers reflecting these topics is included.

This book has been designed to be an essential reference work on all aspects of Optical Fiber Sensors and the associated technology. "Optical Fiber Sensor Technology: Fundamentals" deals with the fundamentals of the subject in terms of the essential physics and mathematical background required for a fuller understanding of optical fiber systems. It draws upon a group of authors from industry and academia with an international reputation for their work in the field."Optical Fiber Sensor Technology: Fundamentals" provides the essential first step in the appreciation of the essential principles of optical fiber devices. The chapters are of a fundamental nature, yet topical in their use of material, well illustrated and referenced, and point to hundreds of key references accessible in the open literature to interested readers. Commercial systems, applications and patent data are included where appropriate in the chapters, with particular reference to the applicability to industry of the techniques described.

This volume is an authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date reference text and will be of interest to researchers and industry professionals working in the field of optical fibers, optoelectronics and measurement and sensing.