Abstract

A Mach-Zehnder (M-Z) interferometer formed by two cascaded long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs) serving as ‘many’ multi-channel edge filters is used to detect the wavelength shift, induced by measurand of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors with high optical SNR of >60dB due to the use of a fiber ring laser, for the first time to our knowledge. Advantages of such a demodulation device are low-cost, compact, easy fabrication and implementation, good immunity of vibration and temperature, etc. In addition, in order to improve the resolution for dynamic strain measurement, a spectral analyzing algorithm called Music modern spectrum estimation is adapted. The experimental results show that a dynamic strain resolution of 0.1μɛ/Hz1/2 at 700Hz is obtained, which is 10 times improvement in strain resolution when compared with conventional FFT method.

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