Radiant energy – Photocells; circuits and apparatus – Optical or pre-photocell system
Patent
1997-02-27
1998-08-25
Le, Que
Radiant energy
Photocells; circuits and apparatus
Optical or pre-photocell system
25022714, 73760, 356 355, H01J 516
Patent
active
057985219
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for measuring strain of gratings written into an optical fiber. Optical radiation is transmitted over a plurality of contiguous predetermined wavelength ranges into a reference optical fiber network and an optical fiber network under test to produce a plurality of reference interference fringes and measurement interference fringes, respectively. The reference and measurement fringes are detected and sampled such that each sampled value of the reference and measurement fringes is associated with a corresponding sample number. The wavelength change of the reference optical fiber, for each sample number, due to the wavelength of the optical radiation is determined. Each determined wavelength change is matched with a corresponding sampled value of each measurement fringe. Each sampled measurement fringe of each wavelength sweep is transformed into a spatial domain waveform. The spatial domain waveforms are summed to form a summation spatial domain waveform that is used to determine location of each grating with respect to a reference reflector. A portion of each spatial domain waveform that corresponds to a particular grating is determined and transformed into a corresponding frequency spectrum representation. The strain on the grating at each wavelength of optical radiation is determined by determining the difference between the current wavelength and an earlier, zero-strain wavelength measurement.
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Edwards Robin W.
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