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Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 45, Issue 16, 1606009(2025)

Spectral Drift Correction for FBG-based Shape Sensing using a Hybrid BiLSTM-LSTM Neural Network

Ming Zhang, Qianshi Zhang, Yifei Xuan, Weijuan Cheng, Lixing Shi, Yuanhan Wang, Hailin Wen, and Ying Du^*

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College of Information Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310023, Zhejiang , China

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Ming Zhang, Qianshi Zhang, Yifei Xuan, Weijuan Cheng, Lixing Shi, Yuanhan Wang, Hailin Wen, Ying Du. Spectral Drift Correction for FBG-based Shape Sensing using a Hybrid BiLSTM-LSTM Neural Network[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2025, 45(16): 1606009

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Paper Information

Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Received: Mar. 31, 2025

Accepted: May. 18, 2025

Published Online: Aug. 15, 2025

The Author Email: Ying Du (duying@zjut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/AOS250818

CSTR:32393.14.AOS250818

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laser devices and laser physics

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