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Demodulation of a fiber Bragg grating strain sensor by a multiwavelength fiber laser

  • Shan Cong*
  • , Yunxu Sun
  • , Yuxi Zhao
  • , Lifeng Pan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors system utilizing a multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber lasers (EDFL) with frequency shifter is proposed. The system is one fiber laser cavity with two FBG sensors as its filters. One is for strain sensing, and the other one is for temperature compensation. A frequency shifter is used to suppress the mode competition to lase two wavelengths that correspond with FBGs. The wavelength shift of the EDFL represents the sensing quantity, which is demodulated by Fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) filter. The sensor's response to strain is measured by experiment. Because of exploiting the dual-wavelength fiber laser with a frequency shifter forming the feedback as the light source, many advantages of this system are achieved, especially high signal-to-noise ratio, high detected power, and low power consuming comparing with conventional FBG sensor system utilizing broadband light as the light source. What's more, this structure is also easy to combine with FBG array.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThird International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 5 Dec 20118 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume8409
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period5/12/118/12/11

Keywords

  • FBG strain sensor
  • demodulation
  • fiber Favry-Perot filter
  • multi-wavelength fiber ring laser
  • signalto-noise ratio

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