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Highly sensitive dynamic strain measurements by locking lasers to fiber Bragg gratings

Boaz Lissak, +2 more
- 15 Dec 1998 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 24, pp 1930-1932
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A novel, sensitive, simple, and robust strain interrogation technique is analyzed and experimentally tested, which achieves high dynamic strain sensitivity of 45 picostrain/ radicalHz rms at 3 kHz.
Abstract
A novel, sensitive, simple, and robust strain interrogation technique is analyzed and experimentally tested. By locking a laser wavelength to the midreflection wavelength of a standard fiber Bragg grating and measuring the error signal, we achieve high dynamic strain sensitivity of 45 picostrain/Hz rms at 3 kHz, where the dominant noise in the experiment is the laser frequency noise.

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