TY - GEN
T1 - Optical fibre probe with lateral interface
AU - Tsubokawa, Makoto
N1 - Funding Information:
Part of the research presented in this paper has been done under JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25420346.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper proposes a novel optical fibre probe containing a scattering layer that is capable of sensing the surrounding light through the lateral surface of the fibre. The performance of the probe in sensing various target objects in free space and water environment has been evaluated by ray-trace simulation. For the probe of diameter 1 mm and length 50 mm, the normalised power, which is defined as the ratio of the signal power to the source power, was obtained within 0.1–0.01 % for the target object over a surrounding space with a radius of ~20 mm. Besides, the probe exhibits sharp directional property with an angular diameter of ~10° in the radial direction. Utilizing this functionality, the probe with the spiral-shaped scattering part will enable the sensing of target objects that are spatially distributed along a fibre axis with a minimum detectable gap of less than 2 mm.
AB - This paper proposes a novel optical fibre probe containing a scattering layer that is capable of sensing the surrounding light through the lateral surface of the fibre. The performance of the probe in sensing various target objects in free space and water environment has been evaluated by ray-trace simulation. For the probe of diameter 1 mm and length 50 mm, the normalised power, which is defined as the ratio of the signal power to the source power, was obtained within 0.1–0.01 % for the target object over a surrounding space with a radius of ~20 mm. Besides, the probe exhibits sharp directional property with an angular diameter of ~10° in the radial direction. Utilizing this functionality, the probe with the spiral-shaped scattering part will enable the sensing of target objects that are spatially distributed along a fibre axis with a minimum detectable gap of less than 2 mm.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-27321-1_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-27321-1_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961256811
SN - 9783319273198
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Physics
SP - 3
EP - 17
BT - Photoptics 2014 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Ribeiro, Paulo A.
A2 - Raposo, Maria
PB - Springer Science and Business Media, LLC
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology, PHOTOPTICS 2014
Y2 - 7 January 2014 through 9 January 2014
ER -