Alternative Implementation of Simplified Brillouin Optical Correlation-Domain Reflectometry

作者：Hayashi Neisei^*; Mizuno Yosuke; Nakamura Kentaro

来源：IEEE Photonics Journal, 2014, 6(6): 6803108.

DOI：10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2366107

• Brillouin scattering
• distributed measurement
• optical fiber sensors
• strain sensing
• temperature sensing

We developed an alternative configuration of simplified Brillouin optical correlation-domain reflectometry, which can overcome the drawbacks of the original configuration. This system uses, as reference light, the light that is Fresnel reflected at a partial reflection point artificially produced near an optical circulator. We show that the influence of the zeroth correlation peak fixed at the partial reflection point can be suppressed by replacing the nearby fibers with other fibers having different Brillouin frequency shift values (here, multimode fibers are used). Finally, we demonstrate a distributed measurement for detecting a 1.46-m-long strained section with a high signal-to-noise (SN) ratio.

• 出版日期2014-12