An optical fiber inclinometer comprises a pair of fiber Bragg grating
devices, a fixed base, a connection plate, and a rotatable base. One end
of the connection plate is fixed to the fixed base, whereas the other end
of the connection plate is connected to the rotatable base through the
joint of a turning pair mechanism between them. The two ends of each
fiber Bragg grating device are installed onto the fixed base and the
rotatable base respectively, and the two devices are mounted on the
opposite side of the connection plate. Once the rotatable base rotates
around the joint of the connection plate, axial tensile elongation occurs
in one of the fiber Bragg grating devices, whereas axial compressive
deformation occurs in the other device. The rotation angle of the
rotatable base relative to the connection plate can be obtained by
measuring and calculating the Bragg wavelength drifts of the pair of
fiber Bragg grating devices respectively.