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Conventional silica optical fibers can be embedded into composite structures or packaging to provide structural monitoring capabilities. In this paper, the microbending optical losses induced by the packaging of a sensing optical fiber into a sandwiched glass-fiber reinforced structure are investigated experimentally and by simulations. Results show that the positioning of the optical fiber within a plain-weave glass fiber-reinforced structure has a critical effect on microbending optical losses due to potentially induced microdeformations of the optical fiber&#x0027;s cylindrical shape. Similar analysis is also carried out with the use of a 1D glass-fiber layer packaging, demonstrating lower residual microbending losses after manufacturing. By the proper positioning of an optical fiber containing a series of wavelength-multiplexed fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors over a 2D plain-weave glass fabric, a 10-fold improvement in the induced optical losses is demonstrated, increasing the optical power that reaches the interrogating unit and allowing the monitoring of hundreds of meters over glass-fiber structures. Although all the analysis is focused and verified using a series of FBG sensors, the results and conclusions related to the induced microbending losses are also valid and useful for distributed optical fiber sensing approaches.

Evaluating and Minimizing Induced Microbending Losses in Optical Fiber Sensors Embedded Into Glass-Fiber Composites