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Location of vibrational disturbance using a serial array of identical low-finesse fiber Fabry-Perot interferometers
Author(s): Rodolfo Martínez Manuel; M. G. Shlyagin; S. V. Miridonov; J. Meyer
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Paper Abstract

An optical fiber sensor system for location of a vibrational disturbance along the fiber is presented. The sensor system is based on a serial array of identical F-P interferometers, formed directly in the single mode SMF-28e fiber by pairs of fiber Bragg gratings with reflectivity of 0.04 % each. Interferometers were interrogated by a DFB diode laser which was intensity modulated at 10 kHz. A method for localization of a disturbed interferometer and experimental results for a serial array of 14 sensors are presented. Simple sensor configuration and the use of low-frequency components make it potentially inexpensive and suitable for applications where a continuous monitoring of long structures has to be performed for appearance of vibrations.

Paper Details

Date Published: 9 September 2010
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 7653, Fourth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors, 76533U (9 September 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.866491
Show Author Affiliations
Rodolfo Martínez Manuel, Univ. of Johannesburg (South Africa)
M. G. Shlyagin, Ctr. de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (Mexico)
S. V. Miridonov, Ctr. de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (Mexico)
J. Meyer, Univ. of Johannesburg (South Africa)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7653:
Fourth European Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors
José Luís Santos; Brian Culshaw; José Miguel López-Higuera; William N. MacPherson, Editor(s)

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