High-Speed Interrogation for Large-Scale Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing

A high-speed interrogation scheme for large-scale fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing arrays is presented. This technique employs parallel computing and pipeline control to modulate incident light and demodulate the reflected sensing signal. One Electro-optic modulator (EOM) and one semiconductor opti...

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Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Chenyuan Hu, Wei Bai
Μορφή: Άρθρο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Σειρά:Sensors
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Διαθέσιμο Online:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/2/665
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Περίληψη:A high-speed interrogation scheme for large-scale fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing arrays is presented. This technique employs parallel computing and pipeline control to modulate incident light and demodulate the reflected sensing signal. One Electro-optic modulator (EOM) and one semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) were used to generate a phase delay to filter reflected spectrum form multiple candidate FBGs with the same optical path difference (OPD). Experimental results showed that the fastest interrogation delay time for the proposed method was only about 27.2 us for a single FBG interrogation, and the system scanning period was only limited by the optical transmission delay in the sensing fiber owing to the multiple simultaneous central wavelength calculations. Furthermore, the proposed FPGA-based technique had a verified FBG wavelength demodulation stability of ±1 pm without average processing.
ISSN:1424-8220