Medical respiratory monitoring sensors based on microbend fiber loss

摘要

In this work, a medical respiratory monitoring sensor based on the microbend effect of optical fiber on light transmission is proposed. The microbend effect of multimode optical fiber is analyzed theoretically using optical theory. A respiratory signal modulator with a "sandwich" microbender structure is designed enabling the noninvasive real-time monitoring. In vitro testing showed that the proposed sensor has excellent following characteristics and can automatically discern respiratory condition, the signal-to-noise ratio can be better than 28dB.