Complete Analysis of Multireflection and Spectral-Shadowing Crosstalks in a Quasi-Distributed Fiber Sensor Interrogated by OFDR

Abstract

We present the analysis of a quasi-distributed fiber sensor based on the concatenation of identical low-reflective fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) taking into account both multireflection and spectral-shadowing crosstalks. This allows obtaining more realistic values of the design parameters such as the maximum number of sensing points, the reflectivity of the gratings, and the distance between the sensing points.