This thesis proposes a newly developed tilt-meter by means of optical fiber hetero-core structured sensor. An optical
fiber has advantages such as resistance to corrosion and electromagnetic interference. Additionally, the hetero-core
optical fiber is sensitive to bending action only on the sensor portion and the fiber transmission line is unaffected to
external disturbances such as temperature fluctuation because of its single-mode stable propagation scheme. Therefore, a
hetero-core fiber sensor enables to monitoring harsh environment in a long time usage and is suited for landslide
detection in various situations. The proposed tilt-meter consists of an aluminum balk, a pendulum with a weight and a
bearing. The tilt can be converted into bending by a clamper at the pendulum and an aluminum board in the tilt-meter.
The proposed tilt-meter has indicated a dynamic range of 4.57 dB for ±15 deg., which is needed to check landslide, and
accuracy of ±1.5 deg. On the other hand, it was proposed that flat springs added in the tilt-meter so as to decrease
hysteresis effect. As a result, the loss for full-scale was decreased to be 2.45 dB, however, the precision was improved to
be ±0.2 deg.
A monitoring human breath has been seen as an important source of factor for vital status for emergency medical
service. The monitoring of breathing has been tested and evaluated in a possible breath condition of a person to be
monitored. A hetero-core optical fiber humidity sensor was developed for in order to monitor relative humidity in a
medial mask. Elements for determent breath condition were extracted from the light intensity changing at some human
breath condition, which were Breath depth, Breath cycle, Breath time and Check breathing. It is found that the elements
had differences relative to normal breathing.
Condition and growth of trees are considered to be important in monitoring global circulation with heat and water,
additionally growth of trees are affected by CO2 and air pollutants. On the other hand, since growth of plants is affected
by surrounding climates, it is expected that real-time monitoring of crop plants growing makes possible quantitative
agricultural management. This study proposed methods in measuring tree growth using hetero-core optical fiber sensors
which are suitable for long-term, remote and real-time monitoring in wide area due to their features such as
independence from temperature fluctuation and weather condition in addition to advantages of an optical fiber. Two
types of sensors were used for that purpose. One of them was a dendrometer which measured radial changes of a tree
stem and the other was elastic sensor which was to measure growth of smaller tree such as crop plant. In our experiment,
it was demonstrated that the dendrometer was capable of measuring the differences of tree growing trend in period of
different seasons such as growing rates 2.08 mm between spring and summer and 0.21 mm between autumn and winter,
respectively. Additionally, this study had proposed the method of measuring crop plant growing by the elastic sensor
because of its compact and light design and monotonious changes in optical loss to the amount of expansion and
contraction.
We aim at composing a novel remote monitoring system of the water level and soil humidity under the natural
environment with a hetero-core spliced fiber optic chemical sensor inserted into an existing communication line. This
paper demonstrates the fusion characteristics of an optical communications and a humidity sensing by means of a
hetero-core spliced fiber optic sensor that has been highly-vaunted from the practical perspective. However, this
humidity sensor leaks light and attenuates the optical signal power of a communication wavelength by intent on sensing
use. From the communications standpoint, this may lead to decrease intensity of optical signals sent to the receiver and
increase a bit error. In other words, there may be a trade-off relationship between communications quality and measuring
accuracy. We have proved the possibility of the co-existence of communication signals and measuring functions by
finding out the effect of humidity sensing on the communications is the optical loss and modal dispersion.
Photoisomerization has been recently studied in the various area of industry. A field of molecular motor and an optical memory with nanotechnology, for example, has been especially made progress acutely and hold the promise of the application to various industries. In our laboratory, photo functional materials using photochromic molecules with ultraviolet (UV) and visible (visible) laser has been studied and developed. Photochromic molecules are isomerized to absorb specified wavelength light and its property of the molecular structure changes reversibly by light.
For a efficient isomerization, the high energy density light is necessary in large number of photochromic molecules.
On the other hand, the laser beam is enable to focus on the several hundred nanometer range, it is possible to isomerize at the only several decades piece unit in the photochromic molecule, because the average of molecule length of the photochromic molecule is several nanometer. In this experiment, it has been UV (wavelength 355nm, pulse duration 5ns) and visible (wavelength 532nm, pulse duration 8ns) laser with 50Hz pulse repetition frequency for measuring the ratio of isomerized molecules from fluctuating absorption wavelength by laser irradiation. As a result, it is considered that the probability in the excited molecule is a increases using laser to irradiate the molecule, the number of photon that collides per molecule have been increased on the increasing irradiation time. In conclusion, it is suggested that microdevices to control submicroscopically have been constructed by combination of photochromic molecule and UV-visible laser.
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