“…Recent works which brought to the interferometric techniques, such Chang et al (1998) and Kandpal et al (2000), have provided input for the development of the proposed method; this represents a new approach for torque measurements, because it allows no-contact torque measures, which do not interfere with the machine rotor dynamics as in the classical approaches for torque measurements that involve the use of strain gauges (Myers et al, 2013), accelerometers (D'Emilia et al, 2015a(D'Emilia et al, , 2016, surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors, or a magnetic-encoder-ring or Hall effect sensing element (Cardelli et al, 2015;Fleming, 2008), that may also have problems of thermal stability (Partin et al, 2006;D'Emilia et al, 2015b). It is important to underline how such a measurement is completely contact-free, and it provides the signal only thanks to an incident coherent light on the shaft, coming out from optical fiber.…”