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A Random-displacement Measurement by Combining a Magnetic Scale and Two Fiber Bragg Gratings
Published on: September 30, 2019
Distributed strain measurements using fiber Bragg gratings in small-diameter optical fiber and low-coherence
Dragan Coric1, Marco Lai, John Botsis
1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Laboratoire de Mécanique Appliquée et d’Analyse de Fiabilité CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Optical low coherence reflectometry and fiber Bragg gratings written in small diameter (50 micrometer) optical fibers were used for measurements of non-homogenous internal strain fields inside an epoxy specimen with sub-grating length resolution. The results were compared with measurements using Fiber Bragg gratings in standard size (125 micrometer) single mode fibers and show that smaller fibers are less intrusive at stress heterogeneities.

