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Spatially Continuous Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing using Optical Carrier Based Microwave Interferometry
Optics Express
  • Jie Huang, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Xinwei Lan
  • Ming Luo
  • Hai Xiao, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

This paper reports a spatially continuous distributed fiber optic sensing technique using optical carrier based microwave interferometry (OCMI), in which many optical interferometers with the same or different optical path differences are interrogated in the microwave domain and their locations can be unambiguously determined. The concept is demonstrated using cascaded weak optical reflectors along a single optical fiber, where any two arbitrary reflectors are paired to define a low-finesse Fabry-Perot interferometer. While spatially continuous (i.e., no dark zone), fully distributed strain measurement was used as an example to demonstrate the capability, the proposed concept may also be implemented on other types of waveguide or free-space interferometers and used for distributed measurement of various physical, chemical and biological quantities.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sponsor(s)
National Energy Technology Laboratory (U.S.)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Comments
The authors acknowledge funding supports from Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, under Contract Number DE-FE0012272, and National Science Foundation CMMI-1359716.
Keywords and Phrases
  • Interferometers,
  • Optical fibers,
  • Reflection,
  • Fabry-Perot interferometers,
  • Fiber optics,
  • Interferometers,
  • Internet protocols,
  • Optical fibers,
  • Reflection, Chemical and biologicals,
  • Distributed measurements,
  • Distributed strain measurement,
  • Fiber-optic sensing,
  • Microwave interferometries,
  • Optical interferometer,
  • Optical path difference,
  • Single optical fibers, Internet protocols,
  • Interferometry
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2014 Optical Society of America, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
7-1-2014
Publication Date
01 Jul 2014
Citation Information
Jie Huang, Xinwei Lan, Ming Luo and Hai Xiao. "Spatially Continuous Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing using Optical Carrier Based Microwave Interferometry" Optics Express Vol. 22 Iss. 15 (2014) p. 18757 - 18769 ISSN: 1094-4087
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jie-huang/79/