Abstract
In this work, we investigate the application of tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) sensors during <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ex vivo</i> laser ablation of porcine hepatic tissues. Initially, TFBG’s ability to measure the surrounding refractive index (RI) for different sucrose concentrations and the possibility to measure the RI of the targeted tissue during laser ablation (LA) is analyzed. After, the temperature sensing modality of TFBG is investigated in detail. We have implemented an algorithm for quasi-distributed spatial temperature profile reconstruction along TFBG. The algorithm models the TFBG core mode spectrum as a chain of Bragg gratings (each Bragg grating is modeled <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">via</i> coupled mode theory), where each grating is sensitive to local temperature changes. After, the Gaussian-shape temperature profile along the TFBG is reconstructed using the iterative optimization technique. Temperature measurements have been compared with highly-dense FBG array measurements and with conventional TFBG point temperature measurements based on the core mode tracking techniques (maximum tracking, X-dB Bandwidth, centroid methods). Overall, the proposed reconstruction algorithm is able to provide a quasi-distributed temperature profile along TFBG, which is not possible to obtain using conventional point temperature measurements based on the TFBG’s core mode tracking. The resulted root-mean-square error in comparison to FBG array reference measurements is 7.8±1.7 °C. In general, the results show that the main reliable sensing modality of TFBG during LA is temperature monitoring, which can be significantly improved by the proposed algorithm.
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