Light power attenuation occurs in deformed fibre. We use this measure pressures applied into one or many fibres without any additional mechanical. Different configurations could be considered : - an elementary loop - a surface sensor woven with a single fibre - a surfacic sensor woven multiple fibres. So we obtain a flexible sensor insensitive to bending with and sensitive to pressure like a skin. The different configurations emerge on different applications - binary working (presence detector reconnaissance shape) - continuous working (pressure may- strain sensor).

Date Published: 3 June 1987
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 0748, Structural Mechanics of Optical Systems II, (3 June 1987); doi: 10.1117/12.939818

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0748:
Structural Mechanics of Optical Systems II
Alson E. Hatheway, Editor(s)