• 46-km-long Raman amplified hybrid double-bus network with point and distributed Brillouin sensors 

      Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; Olier Aguado, David; Zornoza Indart, Ander; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Díaz Lucas, Silvia Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Bariáin Aisa, Cándido Upna Orcid; Loayssa Lara, Alayn Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      We experimentally demonstrate a 46-km hybrid network that combine point and distributed Brillouin sensors. The proposed sensor network multiplexes low-cost intensity point sensors based on fiber-optic tapers, which are ...
    • ECOAL project: delivering solutions for integrated monitoring of coal-related fires supported on optical fiber sensing technology 

      Ribeiro, Joana; Viveiros, Duarte; Ferreira, João; López Gil, Alexia; Domínguez López, Alejandro; Martins, Hugo F.; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; Duarte, Lia; Rodrigues Pinto, Ana Margarida Upna; Martín López, Sonia; Baierl, Hardy; Jamier, Raphael; Rougier, Sébastien; Auguste, Jean-Louis; Teodoro, Ana Cláudia; Gonçalves, José Alberto; Esteban, Óscar; Santos, José Luís; Roy, Philippe; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid; González Herráez, Miguel; Baptista, José Manuel; Flores, Deolinda (MDPI, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The combustion of coal wastes resulting from mining is of particular environmental concern, and the importance of proper management involving real-time assessment of their status and identification of probable evolution ...
    • Experimental optimization in terms of power stability and output power of highly Er-doped fiber lasers with single and hybrid cavities 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Chen, Shuying; Zhao, Weizhong; Sun, Tong; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Taylor & Francis, 2010)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this article, the output power stability of several different highly erbiumdoped fiber ring lasers, as a function of the laser parameters, is experimentally investigated. The study is focused on the optimization of ...
    • Fiber cavity ring down and gain amplification effect 

      Silva, Susana; Magalhães, Regina; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid; Marques, M. B.; Frazão, Orlando (Springer Nature, 2016)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The effect of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) placed inside the fiber ring of a cavity ring down (CRD) configuration is studied. The limitations and advantages of this configuration are discussed, and the study of ...
    • Fiber optic sensor networks 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Elsevier, 2013)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      One of the main goals in fiber optic sensor technology is to multiplex together a high number of sensorsin the same network in order to share expensive terminal equipment and develop a system including multiple measuring ...
    • Frequency modulated continuous wave system for optical fiber intensity sensors with optical amplification 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Frazão, Orlando; Santos, José Luís; Araújo, Francisco Moita; Ferreira, Luis Alberto; Baptista, José Manuel; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2009)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      We report on the use of erbium doped fiber (EDF) amplification to enhance a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) technique for referencing optical intensity sensors located between two Bragg grating structures. The ...
    • L-band multiwavelength single-longitudinal mode fiber laser for sensing applications 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Ullán Nieto, Ángel; Leandro González, Daniel Upna Orcid; Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; Quintela, M. A.; Loayssa Lara, Alayn Upna Orcid; López Higuera, José Miguel; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE / OSA, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work, a novel single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) four-wavelength laser configuration for sensing applications in the L-band is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The sensor system presented here is based on ring ...
    • Láseres de fibra óptica 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Versys, 2011)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Desde su desarrollo en los años 60 hasta nuestros días, los láseres de fibra óptica han ido incrementando su importancia en diversos ámbitos de nuestra vida. Ya sea en la medicina, la electrónica de consumo o la industria, ...
    • Long-range hybrid network with point and distributed Brillouin sensors using Raman amplification 

      Zornoza Indart, Ander; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Díaz Lucas, Silvia Upna Orcid; Bariáin Aisa, Cándido Upna Orcid; Loayssa Lara, Alayn Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Optical Society of America, 2010)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      We propose a novel concept for hybrid networks that combine point and distributed Brillouin sensors in a cost-effective architecture that also deploys remote distributed Raman amplification to extend the sensing range. A ...
    • Low noise dual-wavelength erbium fiber laser in single-longitudinal-mode operation 

      Rota Rodrigo, Sergio Upna; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Springer, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      A new stable dual-wavelength fiber-ring laser based on erbium-doped fiber amplification is reported. The laser is based on ring resonators and employs fiber Bragg gratings to select the operation wavelengths. The ...
    • Optical fiber bus protection network to multiplex sensors: experimental validation of self-diagnosis 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Urquhart, Paul; Schlüter, Marcel; Díaz Lucas, Silvia Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The experimental demonstration of a resilient wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) fiber bus network to interconnect sensors is reported. The network recovers operation after failures and it performs 'self-diagnosis', the ...
    • Random DFB fiber laser for remote (200 km) sensor monitoring using hybrid WDM/TDM 

      Leandro González, Daniel Upna Orcid; Miguel Soto, Verónica de Upna Orcid; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Bravo Acha, Mikel Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2016)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this paper, a random distributed feedback fiber laser is proposed as a multiplexing scheme for ultralong range measurements (up to 200 km). Optical fiber sensors are time and wavelength multiplexed overcoming one of the ...
    • Resilient amplified double ring optical networks to multiplex optical fibre sensors 

      Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Elosúa Aguado, César Upna Orcid; Díaz Lucas, Silvia Upna Orcid; Urquhart, Paul; Bariáin Aisa, Cándido Upna Orcid; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE / OSA, 2009)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      We report the experimental demonstration of two configurations of an amplified optical fibre double ring network for the multiplexing of sensors. The networks are designed to be inherently resilient to fibre failures because ...
    • Robust fiber-optic sensor networks 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (Springer, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The ability to operate despite failure will become increasingly important as the use of optical sensor networks grows, and the amount of sensing information to be handled by a sensor network is increasing, especially for ...
    • Simultaneous measurement of humidity and vibration based on a microwire sensor system using Fast Fourier Transform technique 

      Rota Rodrigo, Sergio Upna; López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; López Bautista, María del Carmen; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2016)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      This paper presents a new sensor system for vibration and relative humidity measurements based on its interaction with the evanescent field of a microwire. The interrogation of the sensing head is carried out by monitoring ...
    • Simultaneous measurement of humidity and vibration based on a nanowire sensor system using Fast Fourier Transform technique 

      Rota Rodrigo, Sergio Upna; López Aldaba, Aitor Upna; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; López Bautista, María del Carmen; Esteban, Óscar; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEEOptical Society of America, 2016)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      This paper presents a new sensor system for vibration and relative humidity measurements based on its interaction with the evanescent field of a microwire. The interrogation of the sensing head is carried out by monitoring ...
    • Simultaneous measurement of strain and temperature based on clover microstructured fiber loop mirror 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; André, R. M.; Silva, S. F.; Becker, M.; Schuster, K.; Kobelke, J.; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid; Santos, José Luís; Frazão, Orlando (Elsevier, 2015)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work, two all-fiber loop mirrors using a clover microstructured fiber for the simultaneous measurement of temperature and strain are presented. The sensing heads are formed by a short piece of clover microstructured ...
    • Single-longitudinal-mode dual wavelength-switchable fiber laser based on superposed fiber bragg gratings 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Rodríguez Cobo, Luis; Quintela, M. A.; López Higuera, José Miguel; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2015)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      n this work, a simple switchable dual-wavelength short-cavity fiber laser operating in a single-longitudinal-mode regime at room temperature and based on superposed fiber Bragg gratings is proposed and experimentally ...
    • Stability comparison of two ring resonator structures for multiwavelength fiber lasers using highly doped Er-fibers 

      Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Quintela, M. A.; Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; Quintela, Antonio; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid; López Higuera, José Miguel (IEEE / OSA, 2009)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      An experimental comparison of stability between two different fiber laser topologies is carried out. The lasers are based on ring resonators that include highly-doped Er-fibers. Both topologies use fiber Bragg grating ...
    • Stabilization of dual-wavelength erbium doped ring fiber lasers by single-mode operation 

      Quintela, M. A.; Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana Upna Orcid; Canales, Irene; Fernández Vallejo, Montserrat Upna; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2010)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work, a novel single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) dual-wavelength laser configuration is proposed and demonstrated. This laser is based on ring resonators, and employs fiber Bragg gratings to select the operation ...

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