A parallel multiplexed temperature sensor system using Bragg-grating-based fiber lasers

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 986-994

  Mandal, Jharna ^a,b   Sun, Tong ^a   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^a   Zheng, Rui Tao ^c   Ngo, Nam Quoc ^c   Augousti, Andreas T ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d Figleaf IT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG); Erbium doped fiber (EDF); Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); Fiber laser temperature sensor; Multiplexed sensor interrogation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; FIBER LASERS; MULTIPLEXING; SENSORS;

CHIRPED FIBER BRAGG GRATING (CFBG); ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER (EDF); FIBER LASER TEMPERATURE SENSOR; MULTIPLEXED SENSOR INTERROGATION;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 33746915730     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.878001     Document Type: Article

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