Yj. Rao et al., COMBINED SPATIAL-MULTIPLEXING AND TIME-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING SCHEME FOR FIBER GRATING SENSORS WITH DRIFT-COMPENSATED PHASE-SENSITIVE DETECTION, Optics letters, 20(20), 1995, pp. 2149-2151
A combined spatial- and time-division-multiplexing topology with drift
-compensated high-resolution wavelength-shift detection is reported fo
r fiber Bragg grating sensors. An eight-element grating sensor array i
s demonstrated based on this topology. A resolution of similar to 1.2
mu epsilon over a range of similar to 1.5 m epsilon with a measurement
bandwidth of 30 Hz (similar to 0.22 mu epsilon/root HZ) has been achi
eved for quasi-static strain measurement. (C) 1995 Optical Society of
America