Fiber-optic Bragg grating sensors for structural health monitoring at cryogenic temperatures

Wolfgang Ecke; Ines Latka; Tobias Habisreuther; Johann Lingertat

doi:10.1117/12.717755

10 April 2007 Fiber-optic Bragg grating sensors for structural health monitoring at cryogenic temperatures

Wolfgang Ecke, Ines Latka, Tobias Habisreuther, Johann Lingertat

Proceedings Volume 6530, Sensor Systems and Networks: Phenomena, Technology, and Applications for NDE and Health Monitoring 2007; 653002 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.717755
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

While conventional resistance strain gages show increasing cross-sensitivities to temperature and magnetic field with decreasing temperature down to liquid helium, it has been found that fiber optic Bragg grating strain sensors show negligible thermo-optic and magneto-optic effects in cryogenic environment and allow, therefore, reliable strain measurements. These specific application advantages of optical fiber Bragg grating sensors at low temperatures, together with the electrical isolation and low electro-magnetic interference, low thermal conductivity to a large number of multiplexed sensors, make them attractive for structural health monitoring of super-conductive magnets, e.g., for super-conductive motors, magnetic levitation transport, nuclear fusion reactors, or for measurement of material parameters at low temperature, and, if using special sensor substrates, also for temperature measurements and hot spot detection on superconductors.

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Wolfgang Ecke, Ines Latka, Tobias Habisreuther, and Johann Lingertat "Fiber-optic Bragg grating sensors for structural health monitoring at cryogenic temperatures", Proc. SPIE 6530, Sensor Systems and Networks: Phenomena, Technology, and Applications for NDE and Health Monitoring 2007, 653002 (10 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.717755

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