scholarly journals Optical Harmonic Vernier Effect: A New Tool for High Performance Interferometric Fiber Sensors

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (24) ◽  
pp. 5431 ◽  
Author(s):  
André D. Gomes ◽  
Marta S. Ferreira ◽  
Jörg Bierlich ◽  
Jens Kobelke ◽  
Manfred Rothhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Magnification Factor ◽  
Fiber Sensors ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Fabry Perot ◽  
Interference Signals ◽  
Fabrication Tolerances ◽  
Vernier Effect ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
Optical Harmonic

The optical Vernier effect magnifies the sensing capabilities of an interferometer, allowing for unprecedented sensitivities and resolutions to be achieved. Just like a caliper uses two different scales to achieve higher resolution measurements, the optical Vernier effect is based on the overlap in the responses of two interferometers with slightly detuned interference signals. Here, we present a novel approach in detail, which introduces optical harmonics to the Vernier effect through Fabry–Perot interferometers, where the two interferometers can have very different frequencies in the interferometric pattern. We demonstrate not only a considerable enhancement compared to current methods, but also better control of the sensitivity magnification factor, which scales up with the order of the harmonics, allowing us to surpass the limits of the conventional Vernier effect as used today. In addition, this novel concept opens also new ways of dimensioning the sensing structures, together with improved fabrication tolerances.

scholarly journals Study of the Vernier Effect Based on the Fabry–Perot Interferometer: Methodology and Application

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Haitao Gao ◽  
Junxian Wang ◽  
Jian Shen ◽  
Shubing Zhang ◽  
Danping Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Sensor ◽  
Path Length ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Optical Path Length ◽  
Optical Path ◽  
Magnification Factor ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Fabry Perot ◽  
Effective Generation ◽  
Vernier Effect

The optical Vernier effect is a powerful tool for improving the sensitivity of an optical sensor, which relies on the use of two sensor units with slightly detuned frequencies. However, an improper amount of detuning can easily cause the Vernier effect to be unusable. In this work, the effective generation range of the Vernier effect and the corresponding interferometer configuration are suggested and experimentally demonstrated through a tunable cascaded Fabry–Perot interferometer structure. We further demonstrate a practical method to increase the magnification factor of the Vernier effect based on the device bandwidth. Only the optical path length of an interferometer probe and the sensitivity of the measurement parameters are needed to design this practical interferometer based on the Vernier effect. Our results provide potential insights for the sensing applications of the Vernier effect.

scholarly journals Human emotion modeling (HEM): an interface for IoT systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed R. Elkobaisi ◽  
Fadi Al Machot
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Human Emotion ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Domain Specific Modeling ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Human Support

AbstractThe use of IoT-based Emotion Recognition (ER) systems is in increasing demand in many domains such as active and assisted living (AAL), health care and industry. Combining the emotion and the context in a unified system could enhance the human support scope, but it is currently a challenging task due to the lack of a common interface that is capable to provide such a combination. In this sense, we aim at providing a novel approach based on a modeling language that can be used even by care-givers or non-experts to model human emotion w.r.t. context for human support services. The proposed modeling approach is based on Domain-Specific Modeling Language (DSML) which helps to integrate different IoT data sources in AAL environment. Consequently, it provides a conceptual support level related to the current emotional states of the observed subject. For the evaluation, we show the evaluation of the well-validated System Usability Score (SUS) to prove that the proposed modeling language achieves high performance in terms of usability and learn-ability metrics. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance at runtime of the model instantiation by measuring the execution time using well-known IoT services.

scholarly journals Tracking by Deblatting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denys Rozumnyi ◽  
Jan Kotera ◽  
Filip Šroubek ◽  
Jiří Matas
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Motion Blur ◽  
Velocity Estimation ◽  
High Speed Camera ◽  
Trajectory Function ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Blind Deblurring ◽  
Object Trajectories ◽  
Complex Trajectories

AbstractObjects moving at high speed along complex trajectories often appear in videos, especially videos of sports. Such objects travel a considerable distance during exposure time of a single frame, and therefore, their position in the frame is not well defined. They appear as semi-transparent streaks due to the motion blur and cannot be reliably tracked by general trackers. We propose a novel approach called Tracking by Deblatting based on the observation that motion blur is directly related to the intra-frame trajectory of an object. Blur is estimated by solving two intertwined inverse problems, blind deblurring and image matting, which we call deblatting. By postprocessing, non-causal Tracking by Deblatting estimates continuous, complete, and accurate object trajectories for the whole sequence. Tracked objects are precisely localized with higher temporal resolution than by conventional trackers. Energy minimization by dynamic programming is used to detect abrupt changes of motion, called bounces. High-order polynomials are then fitted to smooth trajectory segments between bounces. The output is a continuous trajectory function that assigns location for every real-valued time stamp from zero to the number of frames. The proposed algorithm was evaluated on a newly created dataset of videos from a high-speed camera using a novel Trajectory-IoU metric that generalizes the traditional Intersection over Union and measures the accuracy of the intra-frame trajectory. The proposed method outperforms the baselines both in recall and trajectory accuracy. Additionally, we show that from the trajectory function precise physical calculations are possible, such as radius, gravity, and sub-frame object velocity. Velocity estimation is compared to the high-speed camera measurements and radars. Results show high performance of the proposed method in terms of Trajectory-IoU, recall, and velocity estimation.

Optimization of Single-/Multi-/Single-Mode Intrinsic Fabry–Perot Fiber Sensors

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (14) ◽  
pp. 2281-2288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Ma ◽  
Bo Dong ◽  
E. M. Lally ◽  
Anbo Wang
Keyword(s):  
Single Mode ◽  
Fiber Sensors ◽  
Fabry Perot

scholarly journals Giant refractometric sensitivity by combining extreme optical Vernier effect and modal interference

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
André D. Gomes ◽  
Jens Kobelke ◽  
Jörg Bierlich ◽  
Jan Dellith ◽  
Manfred Rothhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
High Magnification ◽  
Magnification Factor ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
Current State ◽  
Modal Interference ◽  
Vernier Effect ◽  
Index Unit ◽  
Conventional Detection

Abstract The optical Vernier effect consists of overlapping responses of a sensing and a reference interferometer with slightly shifted interferometric frequencies. The beating modulation thus generated presents high magnified sensitivity and resolution compared to the sensing interferometer, if the two interferometers are slightly out of tune with each other. However, the outcome of such a condition is a large beating modulation, immeasurable by conventional detection systems due to practical limitations of the usable spectral range. We propose a method to surpass this limitation by using a few-mode sensing interferometer instead of a single-mode one. The overlap response of the different modes produces a measurable envelope, whilst preserving an extremely high magnification factor, an order of magnification higher than current state-of-the-art performances. Furthermore, we demonstrate the application of that method in the development of a giant sensitivity fibre refractometer with a sensitivity of around 500 µm/RIU (refractive index unit) and with a magnification factor over 850.

Novel approach for simple fabrication of high-performance InP-switch matrix based on laser-amplifier gates

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1178-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Dorgeuille ◽  
B. Mersali ◽  
M. Feuillade ◽  
S. Sainson ◽  
S. Slempkes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Laser Amplifier ◽  
Novel Approach

Construction and alignment of a high performance multipass vernier tandem Fabry–Perot interferometer

1981 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 1478-1486 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Lindsay ◽  
M. W. Anderson ◽  
J. R. Sandercock
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Fabry Perot

Fabrication of nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbons from Sargassum as advanced electrode materials for supercapacitors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feiqiang Guo ◽  
Yinbo Zhan ◽  
Xiaopeng Jia ◽  
Huiming Zhou ◽  
Shuang Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Nitrogen Doping ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Koh Activation ◽  
Porous Carbons ◽  
Nitrogen Doped ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Hierarchical Porous ◽  
Hierarchical Porous Carbons

Using Sargassum as the precursor, a novel approach was developed to synthesize three-dimensional porous carbons as high-performance electrode materials for supercapacitors via KOH activation and subsequent nitrogen-doping employing melamine as...

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