Sensors for harsh environments

Optical sensors are of particular interest for applications in harsh environments.

By harsh environments, we mean:

• In explosive environments
• Under high electromagnetic perturbations
• Close to high static magnetic sources (MRI for example)

• 

  Test of a multimode optical gyroscope inside an MRI scanner

• 

  Optical fibre embbeded in aluminium by thermal projection

• 

  Test of an MRI compatible optical force sensor

‎

Optical sensors developed:

• Smart material using embedded optical fibres (collaboration with LERMPS and LEME)
• Single block MRI compatible optical force sensor (collaboration with the AVR team in ICube)
• Hydrogen optical fibre sensor using plasmonic resonance (collaboration with University of Delft)
• Highly accurate absolute distance measurement