Abstract
Fibre optic sensing devices have been produced for the dual measurement of strain and temperature using the combined properties of fibre Bragg gratings and the fluorescence lifetime of erbium-doped fibre. Two different sensors were constructed with the fibre Bragg grating written in normal fibre and also written directly in the Er3+-doped fibre. Results obtained indicate that this technique can be used to measure strains and temperatures with accuracies of approximately 1.2°C and 20.4 με
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