Abstract: In this paper, we present a reconstruction of the distributed strain affecting the fiber Bragg grating performed by means of its reflection spectrum. For this purpose, we applied the transfer matrix method and the Nelder-Mead nonlinear optimization method. Reconstruction results of the strain profile carried out on the basis of a simulated reflection spectrum as well as measured reflection spectrum of the FBG indicate good agreement with the original strain profile; the profile reconstruction errors are within the single digit percentage range.
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