We have proposed an optical pulse correlation remote sensing technique, which has the advantages of high accuracy and good response linearity. To eliminate the impact of polarization fluctuation on sensing signals, we use a polarization scrambled pulse train (PSP), in which the polarization state of each pulse is randomized. We measure the stability of sensing signal under polarization fluctuation in optical pulse correlation sensing with the PSP light and obtain good stability. Moreover, we demonstrate tensile strain measurement using the optical pulse correlation sensing with the PSP and confirm the linear response to the tensile strain even under polarization changing.
A technique for liquid-level sensors based on a long fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is presented and experimentally demonstrated. The measurement system is based on the measurement of the central frequency distribution of the FBG based on time-frequency domain analysis. A short optical pulse is injected into a 10-cm long FBG mounted in a container. The back-reflected pulse is scanned by means of an oscilloscope. When part of the grating is immersed in a liquid having temperature higher than the surrounding ambient, the structure of the uniform grating is distorted and its time-frequency response changes. A spatial resolution of 2 mm, given by the input pulse duration, and a 10-cm long measurement range are achieved. Liquid-temperature sensing has also been implemented by scanning the spectral response of the FBG by means of a CW laser and an OSA.
Optical fiber sensing has potential to overcome weak points of the traditional electric sensors. Many types of optical
fiber sensors have been proposed according to the modulation parameter of incident light. We proposed optical pulse
correlation sensing system which focuses the time drift values of the propagating optical pulses to monitor the
temperature- or strain-induced extension along the optical fiber transmission line. In this study, we stabilize the pulse
correlation signal instability due to the time drift fluctuation at the long transmission line to purify the response and
improve the accuracy of signals at the focused sensing regions.
We propose a region selectable gas sensing system, which can address gases of single and/or different species at multilocations.
This technique is based on optical spectroscopy of each selected numerous absorption lines of gas. Primary
experiment using fiber-optic absorption sensors, sensing regions and region selectors are demonstrated. Specific FBGs
are employed to reflect the selected spectrum for each sensing region. FBG monitor what encloses the tunable light
source and spectrum analyzer works as selected gas and region absorptions measurement. Absorption ratio was estimated
which indicates that the technique is applicable in lightweight fiber optic wide-regions gas sensing.
We propose and demonstrate a regional selectable distributed optical sensing system based on monitoring the fiber optic
length fluctuation shifting by using optical pulse correlation measurement. The measureable regions easily upgrade using
by scanning of time position method and frequency sweep of pulse repetition method. These regional selected sensing
techniques experimentally operated within sub-micro-epsilon level strain of resolution in monitoring fiber environment
change.
We are going to present and demonstrated the feasibility of a novel sensor interrogation scheme that combines the
advantages of the distributed and point sensor systems using a robust interrogation technique. The experimental results show
the high linearity and stability of the measurements. Also, our proposed scheme uses a tunable source with optical elements
that have very few losses. Thus, the number of sensors that can be allocated in one fiber is very high.
This paper presents a second harmonic generation scheme using a nonlinear optic crystal and a multimode Fabry-Perot
blue laser diode that has potential to generate widely tunable coherent deep ultraviolet at approximately 225 nm. Using
the Fabry-Perot multimode laser diode with the sum-frequency technique, a high second harmonic power is hardly
observed due to low conversion efficiency. In this paper, an approximately 1 μW second harmonic ultraviolet power at
around 225 nm ultraviolet wavelength and approximately 6 nm ultraviolet wavelength tunability can be obtained using a
multi mode blue LD chip, a nonlinear optic crystal, and an external high-Q-cavity setup.
A novel stable and high-sensitivity fiber strain sensor based on optical pulse correlation measurement and birefringence compensation approach is proposed. Both the differential correlation measurement and the double-path monitoring established in the birefringence compensation process provide the possibility of high-sensitivity sensing. By using the optical correlation strain sensing system, the strain characteristic of single-mode fiber and dispersion-shifted fiber with different coating materials at different length are investigated. The extension coefficients of the monitoring fibers are estimated. The results indicated that single-mode fiber with FRPE coating has the highest strain sensitivity in this experiment, which is potential to be used in the field measurement in future.
KEYWORDS: Picosecond phenomena, Signal detection, Second-harmonic generation, Sensors, Data communications, Receivers, Control systems, Temperature metrology, Fiber optics sensors, Signal generators
Very high time resolution of pulse timing drift sensor for long fiber skew monitor is demonstrated by using the 10-cc compact module which is used the cross-correlation and differential detection technique. The signal pulse timing drift value and direction are correctly measured even when the signal intensity is fluctuated. The sub-picosecond pulse timing drift through the long fiber delay line is detected by this module.
Highspeed Optical wireless access system by using VCSEL single-beam and multi-optical-receivers system is proposed with a smart beam control mechanism. Sub-Gbit/s-data and sub-Mbit/s-control signals are simultaneously communicated to each other by using LD single beam.
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