Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 44, Issue 1, 0106012(2024)

Research Progress of Phase-Sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometry Based on Optical Pulse Coding Technique

Chunye Liu1, Anchi Wan1, Yongxin Liang1, Jialin Jiang1, Yue Wu1, Bin Zhang1, Ziwen Deng1, Yunjiang Rao1,2, and Zinan Wang1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, Sichuan , China
  • 2Research Center for Optical Fiber Sensing, Zhejiang Lab , Hangzhou 311121, Zhejiang , China
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    Figures & Tables(18)
    Autocorrelation and summation results for 32-bit Golay code[41]
    Demodulation results for external perturbations[37]. (a) Single-pulse result; (b) single pulse result after four times averaging; (c) 128-bit Golay coding result
    Demodulation results for linear chirp signals[37]. (a) (c) Time domain spectrum and STFT result of single pulse result after four times averaging; (b) (d) time domain spectrum and STFT result of 128-bit Golay coding
    External perturbation of fiber tail demodulation[39]. (a) (c) Time-domain profile and power spectral density of unipolar code demodulation; (b) (d) time-domain profile and power spectral density of bipolar code demodulation
    Intensity profiles and differential phase profiles of scattered signals[40]. (a) Intensity profile and (e) differential phase profile of original signal; (b) intensity profile and (f) differential phase profile after using the filtering method; (c) intensity profile and (g) differential phase profile after using Fourier integration method; (d) intensity profile and (h) differential phase profile after using SERM method
    Schematic of distributed frequency drift compensation[41]
    Diagram of experimental setup[41]
    Processing flow[59]
    Demodulation perturbation of PZT1 and PZT2 before compensation[59]. (a) Time domain spectrum of PZT1; (b) frequency domain spectrum of PZT1; (c) time domain spectrum of PZT2; (d) frequency domain spectrum of PZT2
    Compensated demodulation perturbation of PZT1 and PZT2[59]. (a) Time domain spectrum of PZT1; (b) frequency domain spectrum of PZT1; (c) time domain spectrum of PZT2; (d) frequency domain spectrum of PZT2
    Orthogonal coding autocorrelation decoding principle[60]
    Q-DAS system structure with long-range and large-bandwidth[54]
    Autocorrelation function and cross-correlation function for 20 sets of orthogonal multicode[61]. (a) Autocorrelation function; (b) cross-correlation function
    PSD plots of perturbed signals at different frequencies[61]
    • Table 1. Application of coding techniques in Raman scattering based on sensing systems

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      Table 1. Application of coding techniques in Raman scattering based on sensing systems

      Encoding schemeCode lengthSensing distanceSpatial resolutionTemperature resolution
      Simplex code963 bit17 km15 m5 K
      Simplex code1171 bit26 km1 m3 ℃
      Simplex code121023 bit58 km2 m4 ℃
      Simplex code13127 bit62 km10 m-
      Pseudorandom code14511 bit1 km2 m1.5 ℃
      Golay code15512 bit50 km1.6 m

      2 ℃(single-mode fiber)

      3.1 ℃(multimode fiber)

      75 km6.4 m

      2.3 ℃(single-mode fiber)

      1.5 ℃(multimode fiber)

    • Table 2. Application of coding techniques in sensing systems based on Raman scattering

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      Table 2. Application of coding techniques in sensing systems based on Raman scattering

      Encoding schemeSensing distanceSpatial resolutionMeasurement uncertainty
      Simplex code1650 km1 m2.2 MHz
      Simplex code1850 km0.5 m0.7 MHz
      Simplex code19120 km3 m3.1 MHz
      Complementary code2050 km1 cm-
      Bipolar Golay code21100 km2 m0.8 MHz
      Simplex code22175 km8 m2.06 MHz
      GO-code23100 km1 m2.2 MHz
    • Table 3. Application of coding techniques in Rayleigh scattering coherent detection Φ-OTDR systems

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      Table 3. Application of coding techniques in Rayleigh scattering coherent detection Φ-OTDR systems

      Encoding schemeCode lengthSensing distanceSpatial resolution
      PRBS3419560 bit500 m2.5 cm
      PPA3561627 bit1 km14.7 cm
      Unipolar Golay code372048 bit10 km0.92 m
      PPA386211 bit144 m10 cm
      Bipolar Golay code392048 bit10 km0.92 m
      Random coding44128 bit42.338 km-
    • Table 4. Application of coding techniques in quasi-distributed sensing systems

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      Table 4. Application of coding techniques in quasi-distributed sensing systems

      SchemeSensing bandwidth improvement timesAdvantage/cost
      FDM45

      440 kHz@330 m

      (3 times)

      Using additional frequency-domain resource
      Vernier & OFDM46

      25 kHz@51 km

      (25 times)

      Can only be used to detect narrowband signals
      ICP48

      166.6 kHz@860 m

      (3 times)

      Using additional frequency-domain resource
      IICP49

      277 kHz@860 m

      (5 times)

      System measurement swing rate can be simultaneously increased by a factor of 5;

      using additional frequency-domain resource

      FDM47

      50 kHz@10 km

      (10 times)

      Using additional frequency-domain resource
      OCSF51

      166.7 kHz@860 m

      (3 times)

      No additional frequency domain resources
      PPA52

      12.5 kHz@76 km

      (9 times)

      The number of sensors requires rigorous design,and the complexity of realizing a multi-sensing point system is high
      C-AMI53

      1000 kHz@1.05 km

      (20 times)

      The number of FBGs is limited,using additional frequency-domain resource
      OCSC & EMD54

      10 kHz@99.4 km

      (20 times)

      No additional frequency domain resources,real-time demodulation,high strain resolution,high signal-to-noise ratio,low-frequency signals at the Hz level can be measured
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    Chunye Liu, Anchi Wan, Yongxin Liang, Jialin Jiang, Yue Wu, Bin Zhang, Ziwen Deng, Yunjiang Rao, Zinan Wang. Research Progress of Phase-Sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometry Based on Optical Pulse Coding Technique[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2024, 44(1): 0106012

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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

    Received: Sep. 6, 2023

    Accepted: Dec. 7, 2023

    Published Online: Jan. 11, 2024

    The Author Email: Wang Zinan (znwang@uestc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS231531

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