Research Article

Performance Analysis of a Noncontact Plastic Fiber Optical Fiber Displacement Sensor with Compensation of Target Reflectivity

Table 1

Displacement readout variation for each degree of target horizontal rotation—reported for each RX fiber for 3 different values representing near, mid, and far working range.

RX1RX2RX3RX4RX5RX6

−32.1 μm/°OR+41.3 μm/°+6.5 μm/°−51.4 μm/°+62.4 μm/°
−27.3 μm/°+2.8 μm/°+34.0 μm/°+4.4 μm/°−46.8 μm/°+56.0 μm/°
−21.6 μm/°OR+25.7 μm/°+4.9 μm/°−38.0 μm/°+44.8 μm/°

OR: out of working range.