Fiber optic geophysical sensors
Abstract
A fiber optic geophysical sensor in which laser light is passed through a sensor interferometer in contact with a geophysical event, and a reference interferometer not in contact with the geophysical event but in the same general environment as the sensor interferometer. In one embodiment, a single tunable laser provides the laser light. In another embodiment, separate tunable lasers are used for the sensor and reference interferometers. The invention can find such uses as monitoring for earthquakes, and the weighing of objects.
- Inventors:
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- Los Alamos, NM
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 867746
- Patent Number(s):
- 5001337
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01H - MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OR ULTRASONIC, SONIC OR INFRASONIC WAVES
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01V - GEOPHYSICS
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- fiber; optic; geophysical; sensors; sensor; laser; light; passed; interferometer; contact; event; reference; environment; embodiment; single; tunable; provides; separate; lasers; interferometers; monitoring; earthquakes; weighing; tunable lasers; fiber optic; laser light; tunable laser; single tunable; optic geophysical; geophysical event; /250/356/
Citation Formats
Homuth, Emil F. Fiber optic geophysical sensors. United States: N. p., 1991.
Web.
Homuth, Emil F. Fiber optic geophysical sensors. United States.
Homuth, Emil F. Tue .
"Fiber optic geophysical sensors". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/867746.
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abstractNote = {A fiber optic geophysical sensor in which laser light is passed through a sensor interferometer in contact with a geophysical event, and a reference interferometer not in contact with the geophysical event but in the same general environment as the sensor interferometer. In one embodiment, a single tunable laser provides the laser light. In another embodiment, separate tunable lasers are used for the sensor and reference interferometers. The invention can find such uses as monitoring for earthquakes, and the weighing of objects.},
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year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
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