Submillimeter crack detection with Brillouin-based fiber-optic sensors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1391-1396

  Ravet, Fabien ^a   Briffod, Fabien ^a   Glisǐć, Branko ^a,b   Nikles̀, Marc ^a   Inaudi, Daniele ^a,c  

^a Princeton University ^*

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c ROCTEST LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brillouin optical time domain analysis Brillouin optical time domain reflectometer; Crack detectiondistributed Bsensor (DBS); Fiber optic strain sensing cable; Signal processing; Spatial resolution; Strain measurement; Structural helth monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRILLOUIN OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS; DISTRIBUTED BRILLOUIN SENSOR; MULTIPLE-PEAK; PROCESSING APPROACH; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRUM SHAPE; STRAIN SENSING; SUBMILLIMETERS;

CABLES; COMPOSITE BRIDGES; CRACK DETECTION; CRACKS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 78651345045     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2019325     Document Type: Article

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