Fiber optics for the National Aero-Space Plane

Peter Erbland

doi:10.1117/12.24831

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1 December 1990 Fiber optics for the National Aero-Space Plane

Peter Erbland

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Proceedings Volume 1370, Fiber Optic Smart Structures and Skins III; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.24831
Event: SPIE Microelectronic Interconnect and Integrated Processing Symposium, 1990, San Jose, United States

Abstract

An evaluation is made of NASP vehicle features which bear on the need for, and the feasibility of, incorporating fiber-optic structural-state diagnostic sensors. The most likely application appears to be fiber-optic data links for high-bandwidth communications; this is followed in order of diminishing likelihood by distributed sensing systems, advanced optical transduction techniques, fiber-optic microphones, and nonintrusive measurements of flowfield density. Specific fiber-optic sensors will be employed where they are overwhelmingly favored by a cost-benefit analysis.

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Peter Erbland "Fiber optics for the National Aero-Space Plane", Proc. SPIE 1370, Fiber Optic Smart Structures and Skins III, (1 December 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.24831

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