Long Weak FBG Sensor Interrogation Using Microwave Photonics Filtering Technique

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Abstract

"© © 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works." ; A system to interrogate photonic sensors based on long weak fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is illustrated and experimentally demonstrated. The FBG sensor is able to detect and measure the precise location of several spot events. The principle of operation is based on a technique used to analyze microwave photonics filters. The long weak FBGs are used as quasi-distributed sensors. Several events can be detected along the FBG device with a spatial accuracy of 1 mm using a modulator and a photodetector with a modest bandwidth of 500 MHz. The simple proposed scheme is intrinsically robust against environmental changes and easy to reconfigure. ; This work was supported in part by the COST Action under Grant TD1001 through the OFSeSa Project, in part by the Infraestructura through the Federacion Espanola de Enfermedades Raras Project under Grant UPVOV08-3E-008 and Grant UPVOV10-3E-492, in part by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion under Project TEC2011-29120-C05-05, in part by the Valencia Government through the Ayuda Complementaria Project under Grant ACOMP/2013/146, in part by the Research Excellency Award Program GVA PROMETEO under Grant 2013/012, and in part by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation under Project 13122.1. ; Lavinia Ricchiuti, A.; Barrera Vilar, D.; Sales Maicas, S.; Thevenaz, L.; Capmany Francoy, J. (2014). Long Weak FBG Sensor Interrogation Using Microwave Photonics Filtering Technique. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 26(20):2039-2042. https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2014.2345611 ; S ; 2039 ; 2042 ; 26 ; 20