Research project

Trackside Optical Fibre Acoustic Sensing (TOFAS)

Research groups:

Dynamics Group
Lead researcher:

Professor Gilberto Brambilla
Other researchers:

Professor David Thompson
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International

Connect with Gilberto

Email: gb2@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor of Railway Noise and Vibration

Research interests

Low noise design in railways
Ground vibration and ground-borne noise
Aerodynamic noise from high-speed trains

Connect with David

Email: djt@isvr.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Dynamics Group

The group's research covers a range of topics including fundamental theoretical studies, the development of numerical tools and experimental measurement techniques.

Optical Fibre Sensors and Devices

Our group develops a variety of innovative optical fibre devices and sensors.

Research outputs

An analysis of railway track behaviour based on distributed optical fibre acoustic sensing

David Milne, Ali Masoudi, Geoff Watson, Edgar Ferro & Louis Le Pen, 2020, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 142

DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.106769

Type: article

100km single-ended distributed vibration sensor based on remotely pumped EDFA

Lieke Van Putten, Ali Masoudi & Gilberto Brambilla, 2019, Optics Letters, 44(24), 5925-5928

DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.005925

Type: article

Performance analysis of distributed optical fiber acoustic sensors based on φ-OTDR

Mengmeng Chen, Ali Masoudi & Gilberto Brambilla, 2019, Optics Express, 27(7), 9684-9695

DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.009684

Type: article

Subsea cable condition monitoring with distributed optical fiber vibration sensor

Ali Masoudi, James A. Pilgrim, Trevor P. Newson & Gilberto Brambilla, 2019, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37(4), 1352-1358

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2893038

Type: article

Distributed acoustic sensor based on a two-mode fiber

Mengmeng Chen, Ali Masoudi, Francesca Parmigiani & Gilberto Brambilla, 2018, Optics Express, 26(19), 25399-25407

DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.025399

Type: article