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Trackside Optical Fibre Acoustic Sensing (TOFAS)

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International
Other researchers

Professor David Thompson MA PhD CEng FIMechE FIOA FHEA

Professor

Research interests

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

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
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 , IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology , 37 (4) , 1352--1358
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2893038
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
Dynamic strain measurement in subsea power cables with distributed optical fibre vibration sensor
Ali Masoudi,
James A. Pilgrim,
Trevor P. Newson,
& Gilberto Brambilla
, 2018
DOI: 10.1364/SENSORS.2018.SeTh2E.1
Type: conference
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