Optical fiber sensing market will reach 4 billion US dollars in 5 years

The basic working principle of the fiber optic sensor is to send light from the light source to the modulator through the fiber, so that the measured parameter interacts with the light entering the modulation area, resulting in the optical properties of the light (such as light intensity, wavelength, frequency, phase, Changes in the normal state, etc., are called modulated signal light, and measurement is performed using the influence of the measured light transmission characteristics.

Classification of optical fiber sensors: according to the modulation of the light subject to the measured object can be divided into intensity modulation type, polarization state system, phase system, frequency system; according to whether the light interference occurs can be divided into interference type and non-interference type; Whether it can continuously monitor with the increase of distance can be divided into distributed and point-division; according to the role of optical fiber in the sensor can be divided into: a type is a functional type (Functional Fiber, abbreviated as FF) sensor, also known as Sensing sensors; the other is non-functional (Non Functional Fiber abbreviated as NFF), also known as light-transmitting sensors.

ElectroniCast has been analyzing the fiber optic sensing market and technology since the early 1980s, and in fact its analysts have been tracking various advanced photonic technologies since 1976. For more than three decades, optical fiber sensing technology has undergone impressive developments.

The latest report data from ElectroniCast shows that from 2012 to 2017, the average annual growth rate of global fiber optic sensor (including dotted and distributed) consumption is as high as 20.3%, and its annual consumption value will grow from 1.58 billion US dollars in 2012. It will be US$3.98 billion by 2017.