A slope-assisted Brillouin optical time domain reflctometry system based on grade index multi-mode fiber (GI-MMF) was presented. The coherent detection was applied in this system and the Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) was obtained by scanning work frequency. The BGS was inhomogeneously broadened by adjusting the lateral offset between single mode fiber (SMF) and GI-MMF. The bandwidth of BGS with different lateral offset was analyzed and the BGS with bandwidth of 111MHz was achieved at lateral offset of 8 μm. For realizing slope-assisted technology, a bandpass electrical filter was added behind the balanced photo-detector to realize the function of frequency selection. The strain intensity responses with different work frequency were analyzed for maintaining significant linear relationship between strain and signal intensity. The system realized the maximum strain dynamic measurement of 3000 με with the spatial resolution of 5 m along ~1 km GI-MMF at vibrational frequency of 7.83 and 15.47 Hz. The measured error of vibrational frequency was less than 0.2 and 1.5 Hz, respectively. The obtained strain intensity responses were 0.00296 and 0.00292 mV/με, respectively. The measured strain range of this system was more than three times that of traditional systems based on SMF and could be achieved at relatively low cost. The proposed scheme has potential application prospects in large dynamic strain diagnosis.
Using a YVO4/Nd:YVO4/YVO4 composite crystal end pumped by laser diode, we demonstrate the simultaneously Q-switched and mode-locked self-Raman laser at the firststokes wavelength of 1176.07 nm. Its corresponding linewidth was measured to approximately be 0.14 nm. At the pump power of 38 W and the pulse repetition frequency of 50 kHz, the maximum average output power at 1176 nm was obtained to be 1.34 W with the corresponding optical conversion efficiency of 3.6%. The highest pulse energy and the highest peak power were obtained to be 35 μJ and 10.5 kW, respectively. The shortest mode-locked pulse width of the laser was obtained to be ~300 ps with the corresponding repetition rate of mode-locked laser pulse is ~ 1.11 GHz
An in-line Mach-Zehnder interferometer(MZI) sensor was proposed and experimentally demonstrated for simultaneously measuring transverse pressure and temperature. The MZI is fabricated by simply splicing the two ends of a segment multicore fiber (MCF) with two short sections of multimode fibers (MMFs) using a commercial fusion splicer. The transverse pressure and temperature characteristics of the sensor have been investigated in experiment. The results show that the transmission spectra shift when the external transverse pressure and temperature variation, and different spectral responses of the resonant dips are observed, which indicates that the sensor can realize simultaneous transverse pressure and temperature measurement by monitoring the wavelength changes of two resonant dips. The obtained sensitivities can reach up to 112pm/N and 43pmm/°C, respectively.The proposed sensor has the potential application in the fields where both temperature and transverse pressure measurments are required
A Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on seven-core fiber (SCF) and muti-mode fiber (MMF) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The interferometer is fabricated by splicing a segment of SCF spliced with two MMFs. The SCF length and MMF length are 5cm and 1cm, respectively. When the broadband light is injected into the interferometer through a lead-in single mode fiber, a pronounced interference pattern appears in the transmission spectrum. By monitoring the wavelength and power shifts of interference dips, simultaneous measurement of strain and torsion can be achieved. The experimental results show that the wavelengths at interference dip have a blue shift with the increases of strain, but the wavelength does not respond to the torsion. The power sensitivities of the interference dip to the strain and torsion are sensitivities are 0.001dB /° and 0.16dB/°, respectively. The simultaneous measurement of strain and torsion is demonstrated based on the sensitive matrix. The proposed MZI exhibits the advantages of easy fabrication, low cost, and simultaneous measurement of strain and torsion, which will make a significant contribution to torsion measurement.
A demodulation based on the principle of fiber Bragg grating edge filter method is used to measure impact energy of acrylic plate (PMMA) and aluminum plate in this paper. A new demodulation method based on damping attenuation principle is proposed. Fiber Bragg grating sensing system is built in the experiment. The complex vibration wave generated by impact energy is processed by using the envelope of peak value in MATLAB. The experimental results show that using the time length corresponding to the peak attenuation of 10% as the demodulation basis has a higher Goodness of fit. The linear fitness of PMMA plate and aluminium plate is 0.94 and 0.89, respectively. At the same time, it is concluded that this method can be used to preliminarily determine whether the plate is viscoelastic or not. This is a new potential demodulation method for practical impact energy detection based on fiber Bragg grating.
A high sensitivity and low cost all-fiber temperature sensor combined a single-mode-polarization maintaining-single-mode optical fiber (SPS) structure and a Sagnac loop is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In this sensor, the SPS structure is reeled into a circle is inserted into a Sagnac loop. Experimental results show that the radius of the circle has significant influence on temperature sensitivity. The temperature sensitivity can reach up to 1.678nm/°C for the radius of 3cm.
The hybrid fiber optic interferometers are proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In our schemes, the hybrid fiber optic interferometers are constructed by single mode-multimode-polarization maintaining-single mode optical fiber (SMPS) structure and a Sagnac loop. The temperature and strain characteristics of the hybrid interferometers are studied in experiment, and the sensitivities depending on the length of polarization maintaining optical fiber (PMF) and multimode optical fiber (MMF) are detailedly investigated in experiment. The experimental results have demonstrated that the PMF and MMF lengths have low affect on the strain sensitivity but has great influence on the temperature sensitivity. The achieved strain sensitivity is 37.2pm/με for 10cm PMF and 12cm MMF. The achieved strain sensitivity is 38.0pm/με for 12cm PMF when the length of MMF is fixed at 15cm, and is 37.2 pm/με for 12cm MMF when the length of PMF is fixed at 10cm. The obtained temperature sensitivities is 1.723nm/°C when the length of MPF is 8cm with the fixed length of 15cm MMF, and the obtained temperature sensitivities reach 1.848nm/℃when the length of MMF is 12cm with the fixed length of 10cm PMF.
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