Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 34, Issue 5, 680(2007)

A 100 km Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor System Based on Swept Laser and Optical Amplification

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    A novel method of Er-doped optical fiber (EDF) dual-wavelength Raman hybrid amplification for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor system based on swept laser is proposed for achieving ultra-long distance quasi-distributed measurement. Such a method employs a high power swept laser as the light source. Dual-wavelength Raman fiber amplification is adopted to achieve low-noise bidirectional amplification of FBG signals, and two sections of EDFs arranged along the fiber link remotely are used for generation of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) light to illuminate remotely-located FBG sensors and also amplification of sensor signals with the residual Raman pump power, making the whole sensor system capable of obtaining reasonably good signal-noise-ratio (SNR) for an ultra-long distance. The experimental results show that an optical SNR of ~7 dB has been achieved for a 100 km transmission distance with a swept laser, a low Raman pump power of ~170 mW at wavelength of 1455 nm and a Raman pump power of ~2 W at wavelength of 1480 nm, which leads to realization of FBG-based sensing along ultra-long distance.

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    Received: Oct. 8, 2006

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    Published Online: May. 23, 2007

    The Author Email: (yjrao@uestc.edu.cn)

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