High-Spatial-Resolution Fast BOTDA for Dynamic Strain Measurement Based on Differential Double-Pulse and Second-Order Sideband of Modulation

Autor: Yongkang Dong, Dexin Ba, Taofei Jiang, Dengwang Zhou, Hongying Zhang, Chengyu Zhu, Zhiwei Lu, Hui Li, Liang Chen, Xiaoyi Bao
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 2600407-2600407 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1943-0655
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2267532
Popis: We demonstrate a high-spatial-resolution fast Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) for distributed dynamic strain measurement based on differential double-pulse and second-order sideband of modulation. The frequency-agility probe wave is obtained from the second-order sideband of the modulated light by using the microwave signal from a wideband arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), which reduces the bandwidth requirement of the AWG by half to ~ 5.5 GHz. The differential double-pulse scheme is proposed to improve the spatial resolution while keeping the capability of dynamic measurement. In experiment, a spatial resolution of 20 cm is achieved by using a 52/50 ns differential double-pulse, and the distributed vibration measurement is demonstrated over a 50-m Panda polarization-maintaining fiber observing the vibration frequency of up to 50 Hz. With only five averages, the standard deviation of the strain accuracy is measured to be 14 με.
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