• DocumentCode
    444324
  • Title

    Fiber Bragg grating sensors for real-time health monitoring of aerospace vehicles

  • Author

    Tait, Gregory B. ; Rogowski, Robert S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    924
  • Abstract
    Distributed fiber Bragg grating sensors are optically interrogated using a novel widely tunable semiconductor laser and an intensity-modulated reflectometry technique. This research impacts structural and environmental sensing for real-time health monitoring in space transportation systems.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; fibre optic sensors; laser tuning; reflectometry; semiconductor lasers; space vehicles; aerospace vehicle; environmental sensing; fiber Bragg grating sensor; intensity-modulated reflectometry technique; optical interrogation; real-time health monitoring; space transportation system; structural sensing; widely tunable semiconductor laser; Fiber lasers; Monitoring; Optical fiber sensors; Optical sensors; Real time systems; Reflectometry; Semiconductor lasers; Transportation; Tunable circuits and devices; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-796-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2005.1548984
  • Filename
    1548984