Hot-wire Anemometer Based on Frosted Fiber Bragg Grating Coated with Silver Film

Optical corrosion sensor based on fiber Bragg grating electroplated with Fe-C film

An optical fiber corrosion sensor (OFCS) based on iron-carbon (Fe-C) film was researched. OFCS was formed by electroplating a Fe-C film on fiber Bragg grating (FBG)metalized with silver film bymagnetron sputtering. There was a more than 430-pm change of FBG wavelength when Fe-C film was seriously corroded. Compared to electrochemical method, the optical fiber sensor shows dominance in long-last...

Polyimide-Coated Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Humidity Measurements

Humidity is one of important environmental parameters, which refers to the water vapor content in the air. As one of the fundamental abiotic factors, humidity determines an environment where animals and plants can thrive, also influences the human life. There are three items commonly used to describe humidity, which are absolute humidity (AH), relative humidity (RH) and specific humidity (SH) [...

Fiber-Bragg-Grating Based Optical Amplifiers

In this chapter, we propose several schemes for fiber amplifiers which are all using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) as the key elements for their advantages of better uniformity, higher contrast ratio and lower cost. Several applications using FBG-based fiber amplifiers are also introduced. Therefore, this chapter initiates the overview of FBGs characteristics in Sec. 1, then addresses the FBGs pl...

Module 18 : Fiber Bragg Grating Based Devices

All-optical fiber anemometer based on laser heated fiber Bragg gratings.

A fiber-optic anemometer based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is presented. A short section of cobalt-doped fiber was utilized to make a fiber-based "hot wire" for wind speed measurement. Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) were fabricated in the cobalt-doped fiber using 193 nm laser pulses to serve as localized temperature sensors. A miniature all-optical fiber anemometer is constructed by using two F...