Chirped fiber Brillouin frequency-domain distributed sensing

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作者
Dragic, Peter D. [1 ]
Mangognia, Anthony [1 ]
Ballato, John [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Urbana, IL 61822 USA
[2] Clemson Univ, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Ctr Opt Mat Sci & Engn Technol, Anderson, SC 29625 USA
关键词
Brillouin scattering; optical fiber sensors; distributed sensing; frequency domain; P2O5-DOPED SILICA FIBER; OPTICAL-FIBER; ACOUSTIC COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL-RESOLUTION; STRAIN-MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; SCATTERING; NOISE; SENSOR; GLASS;
D O I
10.1117/1.OE.53.5.056117
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A frequency-domain distributed temperature/strain sensor based on a longitudinally graded optical fiber (LGF) is proposed and evaluated. In an LGF, the Brillouin scattering frequency, nu(B), changes (i. e., is chirped) lengthwise monotonically and thus every position along the fiber has a unique nu(B). Any change locally (at some position) in the fiber environment will result in a measurable change in the shape of the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) near the frequency component mapped to that position. This is demonstrated via measurements and modeling for an LGF with local heating. The LGF is one with similar to 100 MHz Brillouin frequency gradient over 16.7 m, with 1.1 and 1.7 m segments heated up to 40 K above ambient. A measurement of the BGS can enable the determination of a thermal (or strain) distribution along a sensor fiber, thus rendering the system one that is in the frequency domain. A sensitivity analysis is also presented for both coherent and pump-probe BGS measurement schemes. The modeling results suggest that the frequency-domain systems based on fibers with a chirped Brillouin frequency are highly suited as inexpensive event sensors (alarms) and have the potential to reach submeter position determination with sub-1-K temperature accuracies at > 1 kHz sampling rates. Limitations to the technique are discussed. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.
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