Fiber optic calorimeter

Pepe G. Davis; Jeff Bush; Stephen Bayliss; Clifford R. Rudy

doi:10.1117/12.323428

23 September 1998 Fiber optic calorimeter

Pepe G. Davis, Jeff Bush, Stephen Bayliss, Clifford R. Rudy

Proceedings Volume 3489, Fourth Pacific Northwest Fiber Optic Sensor Workshop; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323428
Event: Fourth Pacific Northwest Fiber Optic Sensor Workshop, 1998, Troutdale, OR, United States

Abstract

A twin-bridge fiber optic calorimeter has been built and is currently being tested at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The intrinsic optical phase shift induced by changes in temperature is measured in both a reference canister and a sample canister. This system incorporates two Michelson interferometers each with an optical path mismatch of 1.6 km. A digital demodulation scheme is used which produces a 32 bit phase word which tracks up to 500,000 fringes with a resolution of 10^-4 fringe, giving the system a dynamic range greater than 10⁹. Both interferometers are demodulated simultaneously at a rate of 83 kHz. The phase difference between the reference and sample interferometers is proportional to the temperature difference between the canisters and therefore correlates to the power produced by the sample in question. The optical system performance will be described along with preliminary calorimetric measurement results.

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Pepe G. Davis, Jeff Bush, Stephen Bayliss, and Clifford R. Rudy "Fiber optic calorimeter", Proc. SPIE 3489, Fourth Pacific Northwest Fiber Optic Sensor Workshop, (23 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323428

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