TEC free optical fiber sensing technology

Gabriela Yordanova

    Research output: ThesisEngD Thesis

    Abstract

    This work presents the outcome of a year-long project, part of the Design and Technology of Instrumentation program of the Professional Doctorate in Engineering degree.
    The aim of this project was to demonstrate the feasibility of Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) device for strain and temperature sensing without the use of a temperature control unit in the main interrogation package. This is done as a first step towards the development of a miniature low-cost Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) interrogation device, an alternative to one of the main products of Technobis - the Gator.
    Such a product is of high interest to companies and organizations in the medical, industrial, aeronautical and automotive fields. The motivation can be found in the quest of companies to implement ever decreasing in size and cost components in their systems.
    The problem was approached in several phases, following a test plan to evaluate the feasibility of each building block of the proposed solutions. New packages with optimized low-cost designs were build, tested and analyzed. The outcome of this project gives an indication about the feasibility and stability of these optimized packages without a thermal control.
    Original languageEnglish
    Supervisors/Advisors
    • Cottaar, E.J.E. (Ward), Supervisor
    • Kat, Pim, External supervisor, External person
    • Docter, Vincent, External supervisor, External person
    Award date25 Mar 2020
    Place of PublicationEindhoven
    Publisher
    Publication statusPublished - 25 Mar 2020

    Bibliographical note

    PDEng thesis.

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