Interrogation system for a sensor array with 1310-nm band ultra-weak fiber Bragg gratings

Zhihui Luo; Huiyong Guo; Hongqiao Wen

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.10.107101

3 October 2013 Interrogation system for a sensor array with 1310-nm band ultra-weak fiber Bragg gratings

Zhihui Luo, Huiyong Guo, Hongqiao Wen

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 10, 107101 (October 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.10.107101

Abstract

An interrogation system for the time-division multiplexed sensor array based on 1310-nm band ultra-weak fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) was proposed in this study. Power spectral density was introduced to budget the optical power and evaluate the interrogation capability of the proposed system. The proposed system consists of one tunable laser and two semiconductor optical amplifiers, where the former scans the wavelength, and the latter modulates the light and separates the reflected pulses from different FBGs through delayed switching. Up to 1000 serial FBGs, with a peak reflectivity of −40 to −45 dB and a spatial resolution of 5 m along an optical fiber, were interrogated to demonstrate the feasibility of the interrogation system.

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Zhihui Luo, Huiyong Guo, and Hongqiao Wen "Interrogation system for a sensor array with 1310-nm band ultra-weak fiber Bragg gratings," Optical Engineering 52(10), 107101 (3 October 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.10.107101

Published: 3 October 2013

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