Simultaneous Strain and Temperature Measurement with Optical Fiber Gratings: Error Analysis

Many schemes designed to simultaneously measure strain and temperature with optical fiber grating sensors have been reported in recent years. In this paper, the influence of systematic errors associated with the measurement process is analyzed and the error formulas are derived. The results are applied to a range of techniques that are of current interest in the literature. The performance of these schemes is contrasted with respect to the influence of wavelength measurement error and sensitivity matrix error.