First Deminsys (high speed FBG interrogator) flight

Thomas J. van Els

doi:10.1117/12.823893

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10 April 2009 First Deminsys (high speed FBG interrogator) flight

Thomas J. van Els

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Proceedings Volume 7295, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2009; 72950B (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.823893
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Deminsys is the world's fastest multi sensor / multi channel FBG interrogator, identifies one till four channels with typically 8 sensors per channel. The system is especially developed for the interrogation of signals up to 19,3 kHz for each sensor and the sample frequency is independent of the number of sensors. By having multiple sensors per fibre you can create a very compact network of sensors. Due to its revolutionary (light weight, compact and solid state) design, Deminsys seems to fit perfectly into (research) programs for aerospace, medic & life science, maritime, industrial, crash test and all other fast detection applications. Technobis Fibre Technologies (TFT) and NLR made a first test flight with the Deminsys optical fibre measurement system using the NLR test aircraft on October 24th 2008. This flight was a first step in the further development of the current system in order to make it suitable for operation on-board an aircraft and bring it from TRL3 towards TRL5, a functional model for aerospace applications.

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Thomas J. van Els "First Deminsys (high speed FBG interrogator) flight", Proc. SPIE 7295, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2009, 72950B (10 April 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.823893

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