Accelerometer Design Based On Attenuated Total Reflection

M. Owner-Petersen; Bo-Shen Zhu; Torben Licht

doi:10.1117/12.949337

10 March 1989 Accelerometer Design Based On Attenuated Total Reflection

M. Owner-Petersen, Bo-Shen Zhu, Torben Licht

Proceedings Volume 1012, In-Process Optical Measurements; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.949337
Event: 1988 International Congress on Optical Science and Engineering, 1988, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract

It is shown that the effect of attenuated total internal reflection (ATR) might be used for accelerometer design. Although the ATR-accelerometer will never outdate the conventional piezoelectrical accelerometer, it possesses some obvious advantages: Its performance is not limited by a Curie-Temperature, and since it is a purely optical device, it can be used in electrically noisy surroundings. Preliminary measurements on a prototype design are presented, and the performance with respect to optical, mechanical and thermal properties including noise-limitations are discussed.

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M. Owner-Petersen, Bo-Shen Zhu, and Torben Licht "Accelerometer Design Based On Attenuated Total Reflection", Proc. SPIE 1012, In-Process Optical Measurements, (10 March 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.949337

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