Polymer optical fibers (POFs) have significant advantages for many sensing applications,
including high elastic strain limits, high fracture toughness, high flexibility in bending, high …

The recent advances of polymer technology allowed the introduction of plastic optical fiber in
sensor design. The advantages of optical metrology with plastic optical fiber have attracted …

Aircraft structures require periodic and scheduled inspection and maintenance operations
due to their special operating conditions and the principles of design employed to develop …

The simple and highly sensitive measurement of the refractive index (RI) of liquids is critical
for designing the optical instruments and important in biochemical sensing applications …

Optical fibre sensors are an essential subset of optical fibre technology, designed
specifically for sensing and measuring several physical parameters. These sensors offer …

This Letter reports a polymer optical fiber (POF) based large strain sensor based on the
multimode interference (MMI) theory for the application of structural health monitoring. A …

In this article, we report the design of a reflective intensity-modulated optical fiber sensor for
blade tip-clearance measurement, and the experimental results for the first stage of a …

A fiber in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is proposed and experimentally
demonstrated for simultaneously measuring transverse loading and temperature. The MZI is …

An adaptive boundary control strategy is developed for the suppression of store induced
oscillations in the bending and twisting deflections of an uncertain flexible aircraft wing. A …

A wave-guide sensor with two single-mode fibers in a parallel configuration (SMFP) is
demonstrated for simultaneous measurement applications. The sensing structure is formed …