Interrogation of Ultra-weak FBG Array using Double-pulse and Heterodyne Detection

Tao Liu, Feng Wang, Xuping Zhang, Quan Yuan, Jihui Niu, Lin Zhang, Tao Wei

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Abstract

A high performance interrogation method for ultra-weak FBG (UWFBG) using double-pulse and heterodyne detection method is proposed. The perturbation along the UWFBG array is located quickly through the use of double-pulsed optical input waveform. Then the perturbation of fiber is quantified precisely by demodulating the phase of differential signals from a heterodyne configuration. The efficiency of measuring the perturbation is improved by more than 20 times than that of using single probe pulse. In comparison with conventional Rayleigh scattering based approach, the proposed method is supreme in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), approximately 18 dB higher. The use of differential signaling method can effectively remove the influence from frequency drift of the laser source, making this proposed method capable of measuring low frequency vibration. In our experiment, perturbations with both sinusoidal and triangle waveform were generated to quantitatively evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The minimum detectable fiber length variation is 14.85 nm, and the sensing frequency can be as low as 0.2 Hz.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)677 - 680
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume30
Issue number8
Early online date2 Mar 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2018

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Funding: This work was supported in part by the National
Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61627816, Grant 61540017,
Grant 61405090, and Grant 61107074, and in part by the Fundamental
Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 021314380087.

Keywords

  • Dynamic vibration measurement,
  • Optical fiber interference,
  • Optical fiber sensors,
  • Optical time domain reflectometry,
  • Ultra-weak FBG

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