Title :
Distributed temperature and strain discrimination using a few-mode fiber
Author :
An Li ; Yifei Wang ; Jian Fang ; Shieh, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We propose a novel method for distributed measurement of temperature and strain using a few-mode fiber (FMF). High discrimination accuracies of 0.115 oC and 0.283 με are achieved, under a spatial resolution of 2.5 m.
Keywords :
distributed sensors; fibre optic sensors; strain measurement; strain sensors; temperature measurement; temperature sensors; distributed strain discrimination; distributed strain measurement; distributed temperature discrimination; distributed temperature measurement; few-mode fiber; spatial resolution; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Strain; Strain measurement; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
