High-power fiber optic cable with integrated active sensors for live process monitoring

Ola Blomster; Mats Blomqvist; Hans Bergstrand; Magnus Pålsson

doi:10.1117/12.906547

6 February 2012 High-power fiber optic cable with integrated active sensors for live process monitoring

Ola Blomster, Mats Blomqvist, Hans Bergstrand, Magnus Pålsson

Proceedings Volume 8239, High Power Laser Materials Processing: Lasers, Beam Delivery, Diagnostics, and Applications; 82390U (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.906547
Event: SPIE LASE, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In industrial applications using high-brilliance lasers at power levels up to and exceeding 20 kW and similarly direct diode lasers of 10 kW, there is an increasing demand to continuously monitor component status even in passive components such as fiber-optic cables. With fiber-optic cables designed according to the European Automotive Industry fiber standard interface there is room for integrating active sensors inside the connectors. In this paper we present the integrated active sensors in the new Optoskand QD fiber-optic cable designed to handle extreme levels of power losses, and how these sensors can be employed in industrial manufacturing. The sensors include photo diodes for detection of scattered light inside the fiber connector, absolute temperature of the fiber connector, difference in temperature of incoming and outgoing cooling water, and humidity measurement inside the fiber connector. All these sensors are connected to the fiber interlock system, where interlock break enable functions can be activated when measured signals are higher than threshold levels. It is a very fast interlock break system as the control of the signals is integrated in the electronics inside the fiber connector. Also, since all signals can be logged it is possible to evaluate what happened inside the connector before the interlock break instance. The communication to the fiber-optic connectors is via a CAN interface. Thus it is straightforward to develop the existing laser host control to also control the CAN-messages from the QD sensors.

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Ola Blomster, Mats Blomqvist, Hans Bergstrand, and Magnus Pålsson "High-power fiber optic cable with integrated active sensors for live process monitoring", Proc. SPIE 8239, High Power Laser Materials Processing: Lasers, Beam Delivery, Diagnostics, and Applications, 82390U (6 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.906547

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