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High-sensitivity and fast distributed optical fiber pressure sensor

  • Liqiang Qiu
  • , Wenjuan Guo
  • , Qiang Ding
  • , Guanghui Wang
  • , Yue Wang
  • , Yongkang Dong*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A high-sensitivity and fast distributed optical fiber pressure sensor based on optical frequency-agile phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (f-OTDR) technique is proposed, and the standard single-mode fiber (SMF) is used as sensing fiber to demonstrate its pressure sensing performance. Two electro-optic modulators (EOMs) are connected in series in the same optical path and modulated by an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) to generate a set of frequency-agile pulses. The duration of single frequency pulse is 250 ns, and the interval between the two sets of frequency-agile pulses sequence is 5 µs. The injection locking technique is used to filter and amplify the frequency-agile pulses with a higher extinction ratio, and make the peak power of the frequency-agile pulses more stable. The measurement results show that in the pressure range of 0 to 1.8 MPa, and the pressure sensitivity of Rayleigh scattering spectrum frequency shift difference of the standard SMF is 702.5 MHz/MPa, which is about 1000 times that of the standard SMF based on BOTDA method. With an average of 64 times, the single pressure measurement time is only 1.92 ms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEighth Symposium on Novel Photoelectronic Detection Technology and Applications
EditorsJunhong Su, Lianghui Chen, Junhao Chu, Shining Zhu, Qifeng Yu
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653115
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event8th Symposium on Novel Photoelectronic Detection Technology and Applications - Kunming, China
Duration: 7 Dec 20219 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12169
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference8th Symposium on Novel Photoelectronic Detection Technology and Applications
Country/TerritoryChina
CityKunming
Period7/12/219/12/21

Keywords

  • High-sensitivity
  • Rayleigh scattering spectrum frequency shift difference
  • frequency-agile f-OTDR
  • optical fiber pressure sensor

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