Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 14, Issue 2, 84(2018)

A performance enhanced Rayleigh Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensing system

Yong-qian LI... Li-xin ZHANG*, Han-bai FAN and Hong and LI |Show fewer author(s)
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  • Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
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    Aiming at the problem of large fading noise in Rayleigh Brillouin optical time domain analysis system, a wavelength scanning technique is proposed to enhance the performance of the temperature sensing system. The principle of the proposed technique to reduce the fading noise is introduced based on the analysis of Rayleigh Brillouin optical time domain analysis system. The experimental results show that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the end of optical fiber with length of 50 m after 17 times wavelength scanning is 5.21 dB higher than that with single wavelength, the Brillouin frequency shift (BFS) on the heated fiber with length of 70 m inserted at the center of sensing fiber can be accurately measured as 0.19 MHz, which is equivalent to a measurement accuracy of 0.19 °C. It indicates that the proposed tech-nique can realize high-accuracy temperature measurement and has huge potential in the field of long-distance and high-accuracy sensing.

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    LI Yong-qian, ZHANG Li-xin, FAN Han-bai, and LI Hong. A performance enhanced Rayleigh Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensing system[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2018, 14(2): 84

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    Paper Information

    Received: Nov. 7, 2017

    Accepted: Dec. 15, 2017

    Published Online: Sep. 17, 2018

    The Author Email: Li-xin ZHANG (zhanglxmail@126.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-018-7241-8

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