A high-performance miniaturized time division multiplexed sensor system for remote structural health monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5459, Issue , 2004, Pages 145-156

  Lloyd, Glynn ^a,b   Everall, Lorna ^a   Sugden, Kate ^a   Bennion, Ian ^b  

^a Insensys Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre optic sensing; Interrogator; Portable; Remote; Resonant cavity; Structural health monitoring; Time division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTICS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INSTALLATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MONITORING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WIND POWER;

FIBER OPTIC SENSING; INTERROGATORS; PORTABLE; REMOTE; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 10044219690     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.546081     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. A. D. Kersey, M. A. Devis, H. J. Patrick, M. LeBlanc, K. P. Koo, C. G. Askins, M. A. Putnam and E. J. Friebele, "Fiber grating sensors", J. Lightwave Technol., 15, pp1442-63, 1997
2. D. A. Jackson, A. B. Lobo Ribeiro, L. Reekie and J. L. Archambault, "Simple multiplexing scheme for a fiber-optic grating sensor network", Opt. Lett., 18, pp1192-1194, 1993
3. I. Bennion, J. A. R. Williams, L. Zhang, K. Sugden and N. J. Doran, "UV-written in-fibre Bragg gratings", Opt. Quantum. Elect., 28, pp93-135, 1996
4. A. D. Kersey, T. A. Berkoff and W. W. Morey, "High resolution fiber Bragg grating based strain sensor with interferometric wavelength shift detection", Electron. Lett., 28, pp236-38, 1992
5. S. M. Melle, K. Liu and R. M. Measures, "A passive wavelength demodulation system for guided-wave Bragg grating sensors", Photon. Technol. Lett., 4, pp516-18, 1992
6. A. D. Kersey, T. A. Kerkoff, and W. W. Morey, "Multiplexed fiber Bragg grating strain-sensor system with a fiber Fabry-Perot wavelength filter", Opt. Lett., 18, pp1370-72, 1993
7. H. Geiger, M. G. Xu, N. C. Eaton and J. P. Dakin, "Electronic tracking system for multiplexed fiber grating sensors", Electron. Lett., 31, pp1006-1007, 1995
8. T. A. Berkoff and A. D. Kersey, "Eight element time-division multiplexed fiber grating sensor array with integrated-optic wavelength discriminator", Proc. SPIE, 2361, pp342-45, 1994
9. T. A. Berkoff, M. A. Davis, D. G. Bellemore, A. D. Kersey, G. M. Williams and M. A. Putnam, "Hybrid time and wavelength division multiplexed fibre grating array", Proc. SPIE, 2444, pp288-290, 1995
10. Y. J. Rao, A. B. Lobo Ribeiro, D. A. Jackson, L. Zhang and I. Bennion, "Combined spatial- and time-division multiplexing scheme for fiber grating sensors with drift-compensated phase-sensitive detection", Opt. Lett., 20, pp2149-51, 1995
11. L. Dong, J. L. Archambault, L. Reekie, J. St. P. Russel and D. N. Payne, "Single pulse Bragg gratings written during fibre drawing", Electron. Lett., 29, pp1577-78, 1993
12. C. G. Askins, M. A. Putnam, H. J. Patrick and E. J. Friebele, "Fibre strength unaffected by on-line writing of single-pulse Bragg gratings", Electron. Lett., 33, pp1333-1334, 1997
13. D. S. Starodubov, V. Grubsky and J. Feinberg, "Efficient Bragg grating fabrication in a fibre through its polymer jacket using near-UV light", Electron. Lett., 33, pp1331-32, 1997
14. M. A. Putnam, M. L. Dennis, I. N. Duling III, C. G. Askins and E. J. Friebele, "Broadband square-pulse operation of a passively mode-locked fiber laser for fiber Bragg grating interrogation", Opt. Lett., 23, pp138-40, 1998
15. X. Wan and H. F. Taylor, "Spectrally scanned, repetitively pulsed erbium-doped fiber laser for spectral and temporal multiplexing of fiber Bragg grating sensors", Opt. Lett., 28, pp1648-50, 2003
16. D. J. Cooper, T. Coroy and P. W. E. Smith, "Time division multiplexing of large serial fiber-optic Bragg grating sensor arrays", Appl. Opt., 40, pp2643-54, 2001
17. C. G. Askins, "Instrumentation for interrogating many-element fiber Bragg grating arrays embedded in fiber/resin composites", Proc. SPIE, 2444, pp257-59, 1995
18. A. D. Kersey, "Analysis of intrinsic in tapped serial and Fabry-Perot interferometrc fibre sensor arrays", Proc. SPIE, 985, pp113-116, 1988