remote-time division multiplexing of bending sensors using a broadband light sourceremote-time分复用的弯曲传感器使用宽带光源.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2012, Article ID 154586, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/154586 Research Article Remote-Time Division Multiplexing of Bending Sensors Using a Broadband Light Source ´ Mikel Bravo and Manuel Lopez-Amo Departamento de Ingenierıa Electrica y Electronica, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Campus Arrosadia S/N, ´ ´ ´ ´ Navarra, 31006 Pamplona, Spain Correspondence should be addressed to Mikel Bravo, mikel.bravo@unavarra.es Received 14 February 2012; Accepted 31 July 2012 Academic Editor: Weiqi Jin ´ Copyright © 2012 M. Bravo and M. Lopez-Amo. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This work experimentally demonstrates a remote sensing network which interrogates bending sensors using time-division multiplexing techniques and a broadband light source. The bending sensors are located 50 km away from the monitoring station. They are based on a simple tie displacement sensor and offer high-resolution measurements of displacement. 1. Introduction sensor was used in [5]. In that paper, 4 sensors were multiplexed using an optical time domain reflectometer Optical fiber intensity sensors based on bend mechanisms (OTDR). Recently, we have used the singlemode version of have been extensively used because th