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In the field of aqueous environment studies, long-period fiber gratings are very attractive for the real-time monitoring of physical parameters, such as temperature and salinity. However, due to the fiber jacket removal, these are fragile devices when applied in real conditions, where mechanical loads and contamination with algae and other organic materials must be taken into account. This work describes a refractive index sensing head that has been developed and characterized for in situ measurement of water salinity and resistance to hard conditions.

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In this work we describe the characterization of high Q optical microresonators using an all fiber based system. Silica microspheres fabricated on a fiber tip by electric arc discharge are characterized using a simple interrogation system based on an adiabatic fiber taper coupler and on the collection of scattered radiation by a multimode fiber.

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Theoretical and experimental results were presented which validated a new dual interferometric configuration with serrodyne processing for the remote sensing of electrical current. Linearity and waveform reproduction at 50 Hz were observed and a current resolution (˜22.4 ArmsHz- 1/2) was obtained. The utilization of the proposed interferometric concept to simultaneously perform metering and relaying current measurements was also addressed. © 2002 IEEE.

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