Fiber optic sensor system for stress monitoring in power cables

Author

Burgmeier, J. ; Schippers, W. ; Schade, W.

Author_Institution

LaserAnwendungsCentrum, Clausthal Univ. of Technol., Goslar, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Monitoring of stress in power cables is of great interest to determine the cable lifetime, especially under rough environmental conditions like in offshore wind energy plants. Standard single mode fibers are generally included in power cables for data transfer. In our approach we developed a sensor device which uses single mode fibers already included in the cables and a short pulse broadband light source. This allows measuring temperature and pressure via time resolved Raman backscattering photon counting as well as monitoring bending and torsion via fiber Bragg gratings.

Keywords

Raman spectra; bending; fibre optic sensors; photon counting; power cables; power system measurement; pressure measurement; stress measurement; temperature measurement; torsion; bending monitoring; cable lifetime; fiber Bragg gratings; fiber optic sensor system; power cables; pressure measurement; short pulse broadband light source; single mode fiber; stress monitoring; temperature measurement; time resolved Raman backscattering photon counting; torsion monitoring; Condition monitoring; Light sources; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber sensors; Power cables; Pressure measurement; Stress; Temperature measurement; Wind energy; (060.2370) Fiber optics sensors; (060.3735) Fiber Bragg gratings; (060.5295) Photonic crystal fibers; (290.5860) Scattering, Raman; (320.6629) Supercontinuum generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5226121