Innovative Photonic Sensors for Safety and Security, Part II: Aerospace and Submarine Applications
Antonello Cutolo, Romeo Bernini, Gaia Maria Berruti, Giovanni Breglio, Francesco Antonio Bruno, S. Buontempo, Ester Catalano, M. Consales, Agnese Coscetta, Andrea Cusano, Maria Alessandra Cutolo, Pasquale Di Palma, Flavio Esposito, F. Fienga, M. Giordano, Antonio Iele, Agostino Iadicicco, Andrea Irace, Mohammed Janneh, A. Laudati, Marco Leone, Luca Maresca, Vincenzo Romano Marrazzo, Aldo Minardo, Marco Pisco, Giuseppe Quero, Michele Riccio, Anubhav Srivastava, Patrizio Vaiano, Luigi Zeni, Stefania Campopiano
Abstract
The employability of photonics technology in the modern era's highly demanding and sophisticated domain of aerospace and submarines has been an appealing challenge for the scientific communities. In this paper, we review our main results achieved so far on the use of optical fiber sensors for safety and security in innovative aerospace and submarine applications. In particular, recent results of in-field applications of optical fiber sensors in aircraft monitoring, from a weight and balance analysis to vehicle Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Landing Gear (LG) monitoring, are presented and discussed. Moreover, underwater fiber-optic hydrophones are presented from the design to marine application.