Review of femtosecond-laser-inscribed fiber Bragg gratings: fabrication technologies and sensing applications

J He, B Xu, X Xu, C Liao, Y Wang - Photonic Sensors, 2021 - Springer
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is the most widely used optical fiber sensor due to its compact
size, high sensitivity, and easiness for multiplexing. Conventional FBGs fabricated by using …

FBG for oil and gas exploration

Q Rong, X Qiao - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the petroleum industry, advances in technology are required for cost-effective production
in key reservoir exploration areas and oil-well production management to increase yield and …

Simultaneous measurement of axial strain, bending and torsion with a single fiber Bragg grating in CYTOP fiber

AG Leal-Junior, A Theodosiou, CR Diaz… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents the development of a three-dimensional (3-D) displacement sensor
based on one fiber Bragg grating (FBG). In order to obtain higher sensitivity and dynamic …

Two-dimensional vector bending sensor based on seven-core fiber Bragg gratings

M Hou, K Yang, J He, X Xu, S Ju, K Guo, Y Wang - Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrated a two-dimensional vector-bending sensor by use of fiber Bragg gratings
(FBGs) inscribed in a homogeneous seven-core fiber. Seven FBGs were simultaneously …

Selective fiber Bragg grating inscription in four-core fiber for two-dimension vector bending sensing

W Bao, N Sahoo, Z Sun, C Wang, S Liu, Y Wang… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The paper presents selective fiber Bragg grating (FBG) inscription in four-core fiber based
on a phase mask scanning method. The inscription factors are systematically investigated …

Effects of curvature on flexible Bragg grating in off-axis core: Theory and experiment

F Anelli, A Annunziato, M Godfrey… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A high curvature flexible Bragg grating, in planar technology, is designed, fabricated and
experimentally characterized by employing silica glass. The curvature sensing mechanism …

Highly sensitive vibration sensor based on the dispersion turning point microfiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer

K Liu, J Fan, B Luo, X Zou, D Wu, X Zou, S Shi… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In the present work, we introduced a highly sensitive vibration sensor, which is based on the
dispersion turning point (DTP) microfiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The axial strain and …

Coupled-core fiber Bragg gratings for low-cost sensing

JA Flores-Bravo, J Madrigal, J Zubia, S Sales… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Sensors based on Bragg gratings inscribed in conventional single mode fibers are
expensive due to the need of a sophisticated, but low-speed, interrogation system. As an …

An optical fiber sensor based on lateral-offset spliced seven-core fiber for bending and stretching strain measurement

R Zhou, X Qiao, R Wang, F Chen… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a fiber-optic strain sensor based on a seven-core fiber (7-CF) for accurate
extrusion bending and tensile strain sensing. The sensor structure we designed is the 7-CF …

All fiber compact bending sensor with high sensitivity based on a multimode fiber embedded chirped long-period grating

S Zhang, T Geng, H Niu, X Li, Y Yan, C Sun, S Deng… - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We investigated and prepared a chirped long-period grating for high sensitivity bending
measurement. The novel fiber structure is composed of the multimode fiber (MMF) with fixed …