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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Sentek Instrument Llc, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Senek Instrument LLC, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 (2006.01); G01L 1/24 (2006.01); G01D 5/353 (2006.01); G01D 18/00 (2006.01); E21B 47/12 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 1/246 (2013.01); E21B 47/123 (2013.01); G01D 5/35312 (2013.01); G01D 5/35316 (2013.01); G01D 18/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A serial weak FBG interrogator is disclosed. The serial weak FBG interrogator may include a CW tunable laser or pulsed laser utilized as a laser source and an EDFA. The serial weak FBG interrogator may also be an interrogation of a single sensor system by utilization of a DFB laser which utilizes a single sensor, which may be an interferometer sensor, an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer or a wavelength-modulated sensor. The serial weak FBG interrogator may also include a computer system or CSPU.