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Research project

Trackside Optical Fibre Acoustic Sensing (TOFAS)

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International
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Email: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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