A fiber Bragg grating sensor system for simultaneously static and dynamic measurements with a wavelength-swept fiber laser

A novel fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor system for static and dynamic measurements with a wavelength-swept fiber laser is proposed and demonstrated. In this system, both static and dynamic perturbation of each FBG in the sensor arrays can be interrogated simultaneously. The experiments demonstrated the strain resolutions of /spl sim/1 /spl mu//spl epsiv/ and 3.4 n/spl epsiv///spl radic/Hz at 500 Hz for static and dynamic measurements, respectively.