Fiber Optic Sensor Multiplexing Techniques

Use of multiple sensors in a network (multiplexing) is cheaper while retaining the benefits of fiber optic networks. This book shows readers how to take into account various modulation techniques, network topologies, and decoding methods when designing a network. It deals with multiplexing networks for point and quasi- distributed optical fiber sensors and explains the principles of these systems, their components, and categorization. The author compare and contrast various multiplexing networks for optical fiber sensors, including those based on optical amplification and lasing multiplexing systems, and presents several illustrative examples.

Manuel Lopez-Amo is a full professor in photonics at the Electrical and Electronic department of Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain) since 1996. He is the head of the optical communications group of this department. He has been Chairman of the Optoelectronic Committee of Spain. He has been the director of the Engineering Faculty and of the Electrical and Electronic department of Universidad Pública de Navarra. He has been the leader of more than 50 research projects and he has co-authored more than 250 works in international refereed journals and conferences related with fiber-optic networks, fiber-optic sensors, fiberoptic amplifiers and lasers and integrated optics. He is a member of more than 20 international Committees of Conferences, being the technical chair of the International Conference on fiber optic sensors (OFS 2014). He belongs to the IEC subcommittee 86C: Fibre optic systems and active devices. He has supervised 15 PhD theses about Photonics. He has received among others, the Archimedes prize of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science as research director. He is a Senior member of IEEE. Rosa Ana Perez-Herrera received the telecommunications engineering degree from the University of Cantabria, Spain, in 2004. In 2005 she joined the Optical Communications Group at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). During this period, she was a visiting Ph.D. student at INESC in Unidade De Optoelectronica E Sistemas Electronicos in Porto (Portugal), at the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at City University of London and at the Department of Information Engineering at Parma University (Italy) among others. In 2009, she became an Assistant Professor inthe Electrical and Electronic Engineering department of the Universidad Pública de Navarra. In 2010 she obtained her Ph.D. degree also from the Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain. She has co-authored more than 60 works in conferences and international refereed journals related with fiber-optic amplifiers and lasers, robust networks, and fiber-optic sensors. Daniel Leandro received the telecommunication engineering degree and communications master degree from the Universidad Pública\ de Navarra, Spain in 2010 and 2012, respectively. In 2012, he joined the Optical Communications Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Universidad Pública de Navarra. He has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at City University of London. In 2016 he received his Ph.D. degree from the Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain. He has received among others, the Archimedes prize for young researchers of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.