idAbstract. The road damage due to excessive load is one of the causes of accidents on the road. A device to measure weight of the passing vehicles needs to be planted in the road structure. Thus, a weight sensor for the passing vehicles is required. In this study, we designed a weight sensor for a static load based on a power loss due to a micro bending on the optical fiber flanked on a board. The following main components are used i.e. LED 1310 nm as a light source, a multimode fiber optic as a transmission media and a power meter for measuring power loss. This works focuses on obtaining a suitable deformer design for weight sensor. Experimental results show that deformer design with 1.5 mm single side has level of accuracy as 4.32% while the design with 1.5 mm double side has level of accuracy as 98.77%. Increasing deformer length to 2.5 mm gives 71.18% level of accuracy for single side, and 76.94% level of accuracy for double side. Micro bending design with 1.5 mm double side has a high sensitivity and it is also capable of measuring load up to 100 kg. The sensor designed has been tested for measuring the weight of motor cycle, and it can be upgraded for measuring heavy vehicles.
<span>In this paper, we investigate a hexagonal two-layer photonic crystal fiber based on surface plasmon resonance (HT-PCF-SPR) which is easy to fabricate as a sensor for detecting the refractive index of analytes. After performing numerical simulations using COMSOL multiphysics based on the finite element method (FEM), it was found that the HT-PCF-SPR could detect the analyte's refractive index in the range 1.34-1.37 RIU and in the wavelength range from 730 nm to 810 nm. The plasmonic material used in the design is gold with a thickness of 40 nm which is located outside the layer and in two opposite air holes in the core. The HT-PCF-SPR design has good performance in detecting analytes, it is found that the sensitivity in detecting analytes is 2,000 nm/RIU, meaning that every 1 RIU shift of analyte shifts the wavelength by 2000 nm. Meanwhile, the sensor resolution obtained from the design is 6.67×10-5 RIU, and it is found that the larger the air hole, the greater the confinement loss value.</span>
Optical fiber is increasingly popular and appreciated as a modern sensor technology in various sectors, one of which is for medical functions. This study was conducted to detect human diaphragmatic breathing flow using theoretical and experimental approaches. Initially, the lung model was formed using the finite element method and the Navier-Stokes equation by applying the principles of momentum and continuity. Furthermore, fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and single mode fiber (SMF) were experimentally designed with sinusoidal patterned macro-scale bending as a stretch sensor in a breathing belt applied to the diaphragm. The simulation model shows the airflow velocity increases up to 4 m/s when it flows into smaller branches. While the experimental results show that the largest power loss occurs at a buffer diameter of 0.8 cm. The power loss detected in SMF is a maximum of -0.18 dBm during inhalation and a minimum of -0.28 dBm during expiration. However, FBG bending is superior with high sensitivity.
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