Article | REF: R6736 V1

Fiber Bragg Grating sensors - Demultiplexing and Measuring techniques, applications

Author: Pierre FERDINAND

Publication date: October 10, 2018

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  • Pierre FERDINAND: Doctor of Science - Expert consultant - Research Director and Scientific Advisor at CEA Saclay

 INTRODUCTION

Bragg gratings are diffractive microstructures obtained by photo-inscribing laser interference within the core of single-mode optical fibers. Short-period Bragg gratings consist of a uniform, submicron modulation of the refractive index of the fiber core. In fact, a Bragg grating a few millimeters long has several thousand Λ "steps", and acts as a reflector for a fine spectral band (0.2 to 0.3 nm) centered at λB=2neΛ , with Λ (~ 0.5 µm for example) and n e (~ 1.45) the effective index of the mode. Any change in Λ or n e therefore "moves" λ B whose tracking provides the inducing parameter. Of course, Bragg gratings can be multiplexed. To do this, it is sufficient, for example, to cascade several of them with slightly different pitches Λ i and probe them each around their characteristic wavelength, with incident light reflected respectively at λ B1 , λ B2 ... λ BN . The poorly resolved measurement of λ B i indicates the address of the ith network, while its accurate analysis provides the desired measurement.

In addition to this brief description of Bragg grating transducers, the reader may wish to refer to the article [R 6 735 ] in Techniques de l'Ingénieur, which provides a complete and detailed analysis of the different types of Bragg gratings, their inscription processes and their metrological characteristics. The aforementioned article also contains an analysis of sensors based on these translating Bragg gratings, for the measurement of various parameters, and for numerous fields of application (e.g. extensometers for civil engineering concrete, deformation or temperature sensors for composite materials, etc.).

This article deals with the complementary part of Bragg grating sensors, i.e. systems for measuring and demultiplexing spectral information, most often in the context of multisensor approaches, i.e. fiber optic sensor arrays – RCFO –, before...

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multiplexing   |   Optical Fiber Sensor   |   Fiber Bragg Grating   |   quasi-distributed sensor   |   sensor network   |   Structure Health Monitoring


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