• DocumentCode
    3110495
  • Title

    Improved arrayed waveguide grating-based interrogation system for fiber bragg grating sensors

  • Author

    Comanici, Maria-Iulia ; Chen, Lawrence R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We propose and demonstrate a fiber laser system that is used to improve the measurement sensitivity and power efficiency in the context of mapping the wavelength encoded information of an array of FBG strain sensors to a power measurement.
  • Keywords
    arrayed waveguide gratings; fibre optic sensors; arrayed waveguide grating; fiber Bragg grating sensors; interrogation system; power measurement; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber sensors; Power lasers; Power measurement; Sensor arrays; Sensor systems; Strain measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4102-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4103-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2009.5214255
  • Filename
    5214255