"Handbook of Optical Fibre Sensing Technology" By José Miguel López-Higuera (Repost)

This comprehensive handbook, written by a wide spectrum of leading international researchers, offers a clear understanding of the theory as well as focusing on the many practical applications throughout the industry.

This handbook would prove to be a valuable reference resource for researchers, engineers and postgraduate students in fibre optical sensing, as well as practising engineers in optical communications and electronic engineering, civil engineering, aerospace industry, biomedicine and robotics

Contents
Preface
Part I. Overview
1. Introduction to Fibre Optic Sensing Technology
2. The Commercialisation of Fibre Optic Sensors
Part II. Fundamentals of Photonics and Components for Sensing
3. Light and Waveguiding
4. Optical Waveguides and Their Manufacture
5. Passive Bulk Optical Components for Sensing
6. Fibre and Integrated Optic Components for Sensing
7. Semiconductor Optical Sources for Sensing Technology
8. Photodetectors for Sensing
9. Optical Amplifiers
10. Superfluorescent Fiber Optic Sources
Part III. Principles and Techniques for Sensing
11. Transduction Techniques Based on Intensity Modulation of Light
12. Interferometry and Polarimetry for Optical Sensing
13. Gas Spectroscopy Techniques for Optical Fibre Sensors
14. Distributed Optical-fiber Sensing
15. Principles of Laser Doppler Velocimetry
16. Fiber Gyroscope Principles
17. Fiber Grating Technology: Theory, Photosensitivity, Fabrication and Characterization
18. Fibre Bragg Grating Interrogation Techniques
19. Discrimination Techniques for Optical Sensors
20. Optical Reliability of Fiber Gratings
21. Passive Fiber Optic Sensor Networks
22. Active Fiber Optic Sensor Networks
Part IV. Applications
23. Optical Fiber Gratings Applications
24. Laser Doppler Velocimetry Applications
25. Photonic Sensing Technology in Civil Engineering Applications
26. Applications of Optical Fiber Sensors for the Nuclear Power Industry
27. Optical Fiber Current and Voltage Sensors for the Electric Power Industry
28. Fiber Optic Gyroscope for Industrial Applications
29. Optical Fiber Sensors for Fly-by-light Aircraft
30. Optical Fibre Sensing of Electrical Discharges and Plasmas
31. Fiber Optic Sensors for Oilfield Services
32. Fiber Optic Biosensors
33. Biomedical Fiber Optic Sensors
34. Fiber Optic Sensors for Environmental Applications
35. The Optical Nose
36. A New Approach to Optical Fiber Sensing Techniques Based on the Sensory Systems of Living Bodies
Acronyms
Index