Fibre-optic sensors (Through beam reflection, diffuse reflective) must be used in combination with a fibre-optic amplifier.
Optical fiber sensor is a sensor that converts the state of the measured object into a measurable optical signal. The working principle of the optical fiber sensor is to send the light source incident beam through the optical fiber into the modulator, the interaction between the modulator and the measured parameters outside the modulator, so that the optical properties of the light such as the intensity of the light, wavelength, frequency, phase, polarization state, etc. change, become the modulated optical signal, and then through the optical fiber into the photoelectric device, after the demodulator to obtain the measured parameters. In the whole process, the light beam is introduced through the optical fiber, and then emitted through the modulator, in which the role of the optical fiber is first to transmit the light beam, followed by the role of the light modulator.