Robust 3 component optical fiber accelerometer for seismic monitoring

A robust cantilever-based push–pull 3-component (3-C) optical fiber accelerometer is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Sensitivity and resonance frequency can be enhanced simultaneously by increasing the number of turns of an optical fiber without increasing the accelerometer size at the mass of a certain value. The calibration results show that axis sensitivity is 45 dB (re: 0 dB = 1 rad/g), with a fluctuation less than 0.9 dB in a frequency bandwidth of 10–450 Hz. The cross sensitivity