Fiber-optic sensors : applications and advances

OZ Optics’ Foresight™ series of fiber optic Distributed Strain and Temperature Sensors (DSTS) BOTDA modules are sophisticated sensor systems using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Keywords: steel girder bridge, integrity monitoring, distributed fiber optic sensors, crack monitoring, average strain monitoring, warning system, kilometric

• a need for low cost packaged fibre optic sensors for strain measurement in civil

Intrinsic, Single-Mode Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors for Large Strain Applications.. (Under the direction of

Abstract— Results are reported from a study carried out using a series of Bragg grating-based optical fiber sensors written into a very short length (60 mm) optical fiber network

We present an efficient and cost effective multiplexing method for fiber Bragg grating and fiber Fabry-Pérot sensors based on a broadband mode-locked fiber laser source

Watkins et al., "Fatigue Testing of a Composite Propeller Blade using Fiber-Optic Strain Sensors," IEEE Sensors Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Distributed strain and temperature sensors (DSTS) use an optical sensing technology that is based on Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry (BOTDR), or on