A new fiber-bragg-grating sensor interrogation system deploying free-spectral-range-matching scheme with high precision and fast detection rate

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 300-302

  Tsai, Patrick ^a,b   Sun, Fengguo ^b,c   Xiao, Gaozhi ^b   Zhang, Zhiyi ^b   Rahimi, Somayyeh ^a   Ban, Dayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Metrosol Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor interrogation; Free spectral range (FSR) matching scheme; Multichannel bandpass filter; Tunable scanning Fabry P rot filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955227059     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.915638     Document Type: Article

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