Fiber-optic distributed sensing, employing the Brillouin effect, is already a commercially
available measurement technique for the accurate estimation of the static strain/temperature …

Aging degradation and seismic damage of civil infrastructures have become a serious issue
for society, and one promising technology for monitoring their conditions is optical fiber …

We examine the quasi-distributed interrogation of fiber Bragg grating arrays (FBGA) with the
method of stepped incoherent optical frequency domain reflectometry (IOFDR) combined …

The paper presents the first complex study of gamma radiation effects on a low-loss
perfluorinated polymer optical fiber (PF-POF) based on Cytop® polymer. Influence of …

An interrogation technique of cascaded FBG sensors based on a microwave photonics
filtering technique under coherent regime is presented. The sensing information of a 5-m …

In this thesis, an alternative approach to the well-known optical time domain reflectometry
(OTDR) technique is presented. A thorough analysis regarding distributed backscatter …

We proposed a centimeter-resolution insulator strain measuring system based on the optical
frequency domain reflectometry to achieve hundreds points distribution measurement. The …

We propose a bend-loss free, high-resolution, fiberoptic distributed sensor by using a new
sensing fiber namely Ge-doped-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) in optical frequency …

Focused femtosecond laser pulses are used to create scattering damage in the core of
polymer optical fibers (POF). The resulting structures are investigated regarding morphology …

A strain sensor inspired by a Widlar self-biased current source topology called β-multiplier is
developed to obtain a strain-dependent reference current with high supply rejection. The …