1. Air pressure measurement using optical fiber as a sensor.

Macro bending of the curved optical fiber due to applied air pressure is used as a primary sensing element to measure air pressure. The setup consists of:

1. AT89S8252 micro-controller.
2. A beam splitter: Used to divide the laser beam into two parts. 3. Two multi-mode optical fibers: One as sensor fiber and another as a reference fiber. The reference fiber is to eliminate the environmental effects while measuring the air pressure magnitude

4. Two Light Dependent Resistance (LDR) based timer circuits.

The LDR based timer circuits are interfaced to a micro-controller through its counter pins. The microcontroller samples the frequencies of the timer circuits using its counter-0 and counter-1 and the counter values are then processed to provide the measure of air pressure magnitude 5. Thin Bakelite plate. Schematic diagram

2. Strain measurement using a thin film as a low-finesse fiber-optic Fabry-Perot

interferometer
A thin transparent elastic polymer film acting as a low-finesse Fabry-Perot interferometer is mounted at the end of a multi-mode optical fiber as a strain sensitive element. The setup consists of: 1. Microcontroller. 2. TM Spetrometer. 3.3 dB coupler. 4. Strain Indicator. Working Principle:
The sensor consists of two mirrors (two optical fiber ends) facing each other. One fiber, used as inputoutput fiber, and the other fiber, used purely as a refector, are aligned by using a tube and together form an air-gap which acts as a low-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity with length d. When laser light is guided into the EFPI sensor, a portion of the light is refected from each internal refector generating an interference effect in the input-output fiber. The interference is created constructively (reflections are in phase with each other) or destructively and phase shift directly affects the relative intensity of the

reflected.