High resolution temperature insensitive interrogation technique for FBG sensors

In this letter, we propose a high resolution temperature insensitive interrogation technique for FBG sensors where one FBG acts as an edge filter to interrogate a separate FBG sensor. A high resolution of better than 5 μe in strain measurement range from 0 to 1100 μe and the best resolution of better than 1 μe were verified by experiments. An error of only ±2.2 μe is achieved over a temperature range from 15 to 50 °C, indicating that this strain interrogation technique is temperature insensitive. Using an altered system configuration, the temperature was also measured simultaneously with a resolution better than 0.2 °C.

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