Xavier-Alexandre Aduriz, Cyril Lupi, Jean-Luc Bailleul, Vincent Sobotka, Dominique Leduc, Nicolas Boyard, Nicolas Lefevre, Christophe Le Bozec, Xavier Chapeleau, Didier Delaunay, Christian Boisrobert
We report below about the control of processing of composite materials in particular carbon fibre dyed into epoxy
resin. In the aeronautic industry, structures made of such composite materials have a very high "mechanical property to
weight" ratio and can for this reason successfully compete with metallic ones. Their utilisation is constantly increasing
in this industry and this growth is leading to the development of RTM processes. In order to optimize these process nonintrusive
and multi-parameter sensors are required to measure and track the internal evolution for the continuous control.
We study and describe a fibre optic sensor which detects the optical refractive index variations of its environment
during the fabrication of a composite part. The major innovative part of our approach is the mould which has been
designed and instrumented to simultaneously provide the polymerisation degree and the refractive index analysis of the
resin. From these data, we have been able to determine the thermo-optic coefficient of the resin when it is not
polymerised and the evolution of the polymerisation degree versus the resin refractive index. So this result is using as
calibration to determine a polymerization degree of the resin in an industrial mould.
Recent advances in DWDM system designs have led to a significant increase in the number of wavelengths in a single fiber. As network architects start to apply DWDM to regional and metro networks high performance characteristics for mux/demux (narrow and gaussian passband, weak insertion and polarization-dependent loss, low group delay responses,...) are needed. Accurate measurements of these characteristics become also necessary. In this paper, we focus on the determination of the passband and group delay of a free space optics DWDM and show that the optical low-coherence reflectometry is an efficient method for this kind of measurement.
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