摘要:
The invention relates to a fiber optical measuring device for measuring physical quantities such as temperature and pressure, comprising a measuring transducer comprising a sensor material, an electronic unit comprising an evaluating electronic system, light sources and photo-detectors, and one or more optical fibers which connect said transducer to said electronic unit. The invention is characterised in that the sensor material has optical properties dependent on the modulating frequency of the light, such as absorption, reflection or luminescence; that the light from the electronic unit is arranged to be modulated by one or more frequencies; that at least one of these frequencies lies within the frequency range where the optical properties of the sensor material are influenced by at least one of said physical quantities; and that the modulating amplitude and/or the modulating phase position of the light emanating from the sensor material is/are arranged to be detected in the electronic unit at at least one of said modulating frequencies.
摘要:
The invention relates to an optical measuring device for measuring physical or chemical quantities which device employs at least one light source, such as a light-emitting diode, in optical connection with a sensor, the spectral properties of which (e.g. the absorption or luminescence spectrum) are adapted to be changed by the quantity being measured, and at least one light detector (e.g. a photo-diode or a photo-transistor) for receiving the output signal from the sensor. The invention is characterized in that the measuring signal is adapted to be obtained by spectral analysis, and that this spectral analysis is adapted to be performed by varying the spectral distribution of the light source (the light-emitting diode) or maintaining said distribution constant, and/or by varying the sensitivity spectrum of the light detector or maintaining said spectrum constant, and that this control of the emission spectrum and the sensitivity spectrum is adapted to be carried out by a periodic controlling of the temperature of the light source and of the light detector, respectively.
摘要:
The invention relates to a fiber-optically coupled measuring device which has an optically energized transducer section which produces signal information in an optical form, the energy supply for the transducer section and the signal information therefrom being transmitted via a light guide fiber. The signal information is transmitted to a receiver at a location remote from the transducer section, the signal information being modified in response to electrical signals fed to a light emitting component of the transducer section.
摘要:
The invention relates to a measuring device for measuring physical and/or chemical quantities, comprising a measuring transducer and an evaluating electronic unit interconnected by at least one light-conducting fiber, said evaluating electronic unit comprising one or more light sources for transmitting light via said fiber/fibers to at least one sensor element, forming a part of said transducer, said evaluating electronic unit also comprising one or more light detectors for detecting light emitted from said sensor element(s). The invention is characterized in that said at least one sensor element possesses a non-linear relationship between the incident light intensity illuminating the sensor element and the intensity of the light emitted from the sensor element, that said light source/light sources are arranged to emit light having at least two, non-identical light intensities, and that at the same time said detector/detectors are arranged to measure the light coming from the sensor element.
摘要:
A fiber-optic sensor for measuring a physical quantity or sensing changes therein, consists of a transmitter and receiver unit respectively arranged to transmit and receive optical energy and an optical fiber for transmission of said optical energy to and from a sensor located at the measurement point. The sensor has at least one solid body, which is arranged to emit photoluminescent optical energy in at least one wavelength range, and a volume limited by at least two substantially plane-parallel surfaces, the separation of which is smaller than half the coherence length for either the transmitted or luminescent optical energy, whereby an interference pattern will differently affect the transmission of optical energy to the receiver unit as the optical length between said parallel surfaces changes with changes in the physical quantity being sensed.
摘要:
A fiber optical measuring apparatus suitable for measuring physical quantities such as position, speed, acceleration, force, pressure, elongation, temperature, etc., comprises at least one optical fiber for conducting incident light between an electronic unit and a sensor, the sensor comprising at least one luminescent element. The measuring apparatus is characterized in that the physical quantity to be measured is arranged to influence the position of an optical spectral filter, for example of absorption or interference type, relative to the optical fiber in the sensor and/or relative to said luminescent element, and that said spectral filter is arranged to be situated, to a greater or lesser extent, between the end surface of the optical fiber and at least one of the luminescent elements.
摘要:
A fiber-optical measuring apparatus for measuring magnetic fields, current, position, and various mechanical quantities consists of a transducer connected to a measuring electronic unit via at least one optical fiber, and the transducer comprises a magneto-optical modulator with a domain-producing magnetic material. The transducer is provided with at least two optical filters, of which at least one filter is positioned in the ray path on one side of the magneto-optical modulator and at least one other filter is positioned in the ray path on the opposite side of the modulator.
摘要:
A sensor element adaptable for measurement of a physical parameter formed of a crystalline material and emitting luminescent spectra upon excitation by light spectra and the influence of said physical parameter. A first layer emitting luminescent spectra is formed of a semiconductor material containing dopant providing shallow energy levels and recombination centers with a concentration between 10.sup.15 to 10.sup.18 cm.sup.-3, and sandwiched between second and third layers of semiconductor material having low absorption for light excitation of the first layer, and the respective lattice constants of the second and third layers being substantially coincidental with the lattice constant of the first layer. The sensor element is formed of GaAs for the substrate and AlGaAs for the semiconductor layers, with appropriate variation in the concentration Al, Ga, and As for the various layers. Generally, the energy band gap of the layers sandwiching the luminescent emitting layer are higher than that of the emitting layer. In a modified embodiment, GaAs is used as the luminescence emitting layer with covering semiconductor layers of AlGaAs, with appropriate variation in the concentration of Al, Ga and As. In a further modification an additional semiconductor layer of AlGaAs is sandwiched between the active semiconductor layer and a non-active semiconductor layer to reduce or eliminate a shift in the wavelength emission of the sensor element.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an optical sensor element of a solid material for sensing physical quantities such as pressure, which element is excitable to emit photoluminescence on excitation which constitutes a measure of the quantity being sensed. The sensor element comprises a diaphragm which consists of at least two layers applied to an apertured substrate, at least one of which layers has luminescent properties. The luminescence may be sensed by means of at least one optical fiber.
摘要:
The invention relates to a fiber optic measuring device for measuring physical and chemical quantities. Sensors positioned in the ray path influence the spectral composition of the light in dependence on the quantity to be measured. The sensors are of a material with an absorption edge or one or more filters of interference type.