Sensitivity Analysis of Acoustic Emission Detection Using Fiber Bragg Gratings with Different Optical Fiber Diameters.

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Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing (LAMP), Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, 3602 Thun, Switzerland.

Published: November 2020

Acoustic Emission (AE) detection and, in particular, ultrasound detection are excellent tools for structural health monitoring or medical diagnosis. Despite the technological maturity of the well-received piezoelectric transducer, optical fiber AE detection sensors are attracting increasing attention due to their small size, and electromagnetic and chemical immunity as well as the broad frequency response of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in these fibers. Due to the merits of their small size, FBGs were inscribed in optical fibers with diameters of 50 and 80 μm in this work. The manufactured FBGs were used for the detection of reproducible acoustic waves using the edge filter detection method. The acquired acoustic signals were compared to the ones captured by a standard 125 μm-diameter optical fiber FBG. Result analysis was performed by utilizing fast Fourier and wavelet decompositions. Both analyses reveal a higher sensitivity and dynamic range for the 50 μm-diameter optical fiber, despite it being more prone to noise than the other two, due to non-standard splicing methods and mode field mismatch losses. Consequently, the use of smaller-diameter optical fibers for AE detection is favorable for both the sensor sensitivity as well as physical footprint.

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