A Method for Determining the Length of FBG Sensors Accurately

Aydin Rajabzadeh; Richard Heusdens; Richard Hendriks; Roger Groves

doi:10.1109/LPT.2019.2891009

A Method for Determining the Length of FBG Sensors Accurately

Aydin Rajabzadeh, Richard Heusdens, Richard Hendriks, Roger Groves

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Abstract

In this letter, we propose a method for estimating the length of single-mode fiber Bragg grating type sensors with high accuracy. Our method is based on calculating the maximum oscillation frequency of the side-lobes of the FBG reflection spectrum. We show that this frequency is independent of the stress field to which the sensor is subjected, and is dependent on the length of the sensor. This method can be used to characterize the gauge length of already installed FBG sensors so that they can provide useful data for engineering models of structural integrity. All the analyses are based on the approximated transfer matrix model, which is a newly developed numerical method for the analysis of the FBG reflection spectrum under various stress fields.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	197-200
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2019.2891009
Publication status	Published - Jan 2019

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Keywords

FBG
Fiber Bragg grating
Length determination
Reflection spectrum
Structural integrity

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