Implementation of phase generated carrier technique for FBG Laser Sensor multiplexed system based on Compact RIO

This paper presents the fundamental technique of PGC (phase generated carrier) and its realization on Compact RIO (Compact Reconfigurable Input and Output) which adopts real-time and FPGA (Field Programmable Grate Array) techniques. Improvement of the PGC technique is also introduced by using peak-to-peak value detection method to reduce the influence of variation of the light intensity. A four-element FBG (Fibre Bragg Gratings) Laser Sensor system is conducted in the experiment and the demodulated results demonstrate correlation coefficient as high as 0.995 with the reference signal and the dynamic range to be 120 dB @ 63 Hz.

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