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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 40, Issue 16, Pages 2643-2654Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002643
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Time-division multiplexing is a promising method for the interrogation of fiber-optic Bragg grating sensors arrays for measurement of strain and temperature. We examine the performance of these systems to determine the parameters for high-sensitivity, low-cross-talk operation, It is shown that the performance can be greatly improved by use of a short time resolution in the demultiplexing process. We propose a new method of demultiplexing with an electro-optic modulator to read out the sensor pulses by gating the signal with 400-ps resolution. The system is demonstrated experimentally to provide 0.15-mu epsilon/root Hz strain resolution in a;SO-Hz bandwidth within a full-scale range of 8000 mu epsilon. The system parameters are capable of handling at least 50 time-addressed sensors on a single fiber. (C) 2001 Optical Society of America.
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