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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2009.5214255
