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This paper reviews the work on huge capacity fiber-optic sensing network based on ultra-weak draw tower gratings developed at the National Engineering Laboratory for Fiber Optic Sensing Technology (NEL-FOST), Wuhan University of Technology, China. A versatile drawing tower grating sensor network based on ultra-weak fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) is firstly proposed and demonstrated. The sensing network is interrogated with time- and wavelength-division multiplexing method, which is very promising for the large-scale sensing network.
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Yang, M., Bai, W., Guo, H. et al. Huge capacity fiber-optic sensing network based on ultra-weak draw tower gratings. Photonic Sens 6, 26–41 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-015-0298-0
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