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Bragg grating device for measuring an acceleration

  • US 6,807,325 B1
  • Filed: 11/20/2001
  • Issued: 10/19/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An acceleration measuring device comprisinga pair of optical Bragg gratings arranged at a distance from each other and aligned one behind the other along an optical conductor and formed of elastic material for supplying optical radiation, a deflectable mass connected to a part of said optical conductor at said distance between both gratings of said pair such that deflection of the mass in one direction produces simultaneous elastic extension of one of said gratings and elastic contraction of the other of said gratings and deflection of the mass in the opposite direction produces simultaneous elastic contraction of said one of said gratings and elastic extension of said other of said gratings, further wherein the two gratings have mutually different central Bragg wavelengths, and the central Bragg wavelength of one of the two gratings lies in the grating bandwidth of the other grating, means for supplying the gratings with optical radiation having a wavelength range including the central Bragg wavelength of each of said pair gratings, and means for detecting the intensity of a proportion of the supplied radiation coming from the gratings as a measure of acceleration, wherein a portion of the supplied radiation passes through the first grating of said pair of gratings, a portion of said portion of the supplied radiation passing through the first grating is reflected by the second grating of said pair of gratings and reversely passes through the first part of said pair of gratings.

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