Fiber Bragg grating interrogation and multiplexing with a 3×3coupler and a scanning filter

We present a new technique for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor interrogation and multiplexing. The technique combines a scanning bandpass filter used to multiplex by wavelength multiple gratings in a single fiber, and an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder fiber interferometer made with a 3×3 coupler to detect strain-induced wavelength shifts. A demonstration system interrogates four gratings in a single fiber at a sampling rate up to 20 kHz, with a noise floor measured at less than 10 nϵ/√(Hz) above 0.1 Hz     

Technique for finding and identifying filters that cut off OTDR lights in front of ONU from a central office

We report on a newly developed in-service measurement technique that can be used from a central office to find and identify any filter in front of an ONU on an optical fiber access network. Using this system, in-service tests can be performed because the test lights are modulated at a high frequency. Moreover, by using the equipment we developed, this confirmation operation can be performed continuously and automatically with existing automatic fiber testing systems. The developed technique is effective for constructing a fiber line testing system with an optical time domain reflectometer.     

40-Gb/s RZ transmission over a transoceanic distance in a dispersion managed standard fiber using a modified inline synchronous modulation method

This paper analyzes in detail numerically a 40-Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ) transmission system over a transoceanic distance in a strongly dispersion managed line composed of standard single-mode fiber (SMF) and dispersion compensation fiber (DCF). We derived a periodically steady-state pulse (a DM soliton) in a DM line. Since the pulse width of a steady-state pulse is too broad for a 40 Gb/s system, the conventional in-line synchronous modulation technique cannot greatly improve the transmission quality. However, we found that the modified inline synchronous modulation technique, which is reported as the black-box optical regenerator, can effectively extend the transmission distance even in such a strongly DM line. We discuss the mechanism of the modified synchronous modulation technique with respect to a steady-state pulse in a transmission line, and show that a 40-Gb/s RZ signal can be transmitted over 20 000 km.     

Development of a coherent OTDR instrument

Optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) is a commonly used technique for characterization and fault location of optical fiber transmission systems. It involves measuring the fraction of a probe pulse that is scattered back (by Rayleigh scattering) from a silica fiber. Because of the very small levels of backscatter in single-mode fiber at long wavelengths, very sensitive optical detection is necessary to achieve adequate range performance. This paper gives the principles of operation and performance of a coherent OTDR system designed for use at 1.3 μm and its realization as a robust field-portable instrument with a specified performance of better than 24-dB one-way range, and 0.2-dB fault loss resolution. Coherent detection gives ultimate receiver sensitivity and also reduces the dynamic range requirements of the electronic signal processing. To realize these advantages, a novel technique is used to provide the necessary highly coherent source from a semiconductor laser. Sophisticated Signal processing techniques are employed both pre- and post-detection to integrate the signal out of the noise and also to reduce coherent fading effects. The various components of the system and their development into a robust instrument are described, and the performance of the system over long lengths of fiber both in the laboratory and more importantly on installed transmission links is presented in detail, showing achieved performance considerably better than this specified minimum.     

Continuous True-Time-Delay System Employing a Novel Tunable Chirped Fiber Grating Delay Line and a Sampled Grating Based Multiwavelength Fiber Laser

A photonics true-time-delay system for phased array antenna beam steering employing a novel tunable chirped fiber grating delay line and a multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser source based on a sampled grating filter is proposed. The tunable chirped fiber grating, which act as a continuous time-delay element, is achieved by bending a uniform fiber Bragg grating bonded at a slant onto the lateral surface of a simply supported beam. This technique allows the dynamic control of the chirp rate and spectral width of the grating without center wavelength shift. By adjusting the chirp rate of the fiber grating via bend strain, this kind of tunable chirped fiber grating could achieve very low and adjustable delay times, therefore provides higher angle resolution for scanning microwave beam, even the wavelengths of laser source are fixed and un-tunable. The true-time-delay system using proposed tunable chirped fiber grating delay element and sampled grating based laser source is constructed and demonstrated experimentally.     

拉曼散射分布式光纤温度传感器的设计

文章论述了基于反斯托克斯／斯托克斯比值的分布式光纤温度传感器系统，对其信号处理技术进行了全面而深入的研究。采用光时域后向散射技术来获取温度信息，并用时域信号数字积累平均方法来提高系统的信噪比，据此建立了分布式温度传感器。     

单模光纤相移三维轮廓测量术

提出了一种新的计算机图像处理光栅投影三维轮廓测量系统，该系统用一分二单模光纤耦合器产生正弦光强分布的投影光栅场；将光纤一臂绕在压电陶瓷（ＰＺＴ）环引入相移。将该系统用于实际测量得到了满意的效果。该系统具有结构简单、体积小、重量轻、光栅条纹清晰并且光强正弦分布等优点，有很高的实用价值。     

Highly accurate long-span chromatic dispersion measurement system by a new phase-shift technique

A highly accurate long span chromatic dispersion measurement system, which is based on a wavelength-division-multiplexing phase-shift technique and utilizes six laser diodes in1.2 sim 1.6 mum spectral region, has been developed. It is intrinsically free from error due to the fiber length variation caused by temperature changes under the measurement. The measurement accuracies of dispersion and Zero-dispersion wavelength are extremely good and within ±0.02 ps/km . nm and ±0.1 nm in 1250 ∼ 1450 nm spectral region in the case of a 10.5-km single-mode fiber measurement. The dynamic range is over 50 dB excluding system theS/Nmargin of 5 dB. Using this system, chromatic dispersion measurements of a 101.9-km pure-silica-core single-mode fiber and a 100.7 km concatenated dispersion-shifted single-mode fiber have been successfully carried out. The measured result has coincided with the arithmetical mean of those of constituent fibers.     

Efficient self-aligning multibeam coupling into a single-mode fiber

We present and demonstrate a method for efficient coupling of many beams into a single-mode fiber. Using the phase conjugating property for mutually incoherent beams of the double phase conjugate mirror (DPCM), we achieved coupling for a full 6×6 matrix of beams into a single-mode fiber. In principle, this number of input channels can be increased manyfold beyond the 36 used in our experiment. Of the phase conjugate generated by the DPCM in the direction of the fiber, over 97% (Fresnel corrected) entered the fiber, thus giving a highly accurate coupling. The DPCM transmission efficiency itself was measured at 40% (Fresnel corrected), thus giving an overall coupling efficiency of 39%. By optimizing the DPCM parameters, a significantly higher overall coupling could be achieved. An additional advantage of this method is that the DPCM will reconfigure if there are small changes in the system, thus making the system very robust. This multichannel coupling method can be of importance in the coupling of the output beams of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) into a single-mode fiber where each channel may carry independently modulated information. This technique can be further generalized to a bidirectional multisingle-mode fiber interconnection system, of which a basic 3×2 system is demonstrated     

一种新型光纤传感器的应用研究

光纤传感技术以其一系列的优势而倍受人们广泛关注．在本文中，基于迈克尔孙干涉的原理，介绍了一种新颖的光纤传感器；描述了应用该传感系统对液体表面张力进行非接触测量．实验结果比传统测量方法精度大大提高．该传感系统结构简单、抗干扰能力强，测量精度高．文中介绍的测量方法克服了传统测量方法的缺陷，提高了测试精度，拓宽了光纤传感技术的应用范围。     

Technique for direct measurement of single-mode fiber chromatic dispersion

A technique for the direct measurement of single-mode fiber chromatic dispersion is presented. The technique uses wavelength modulation to provide a differential fiber chromatic delay signal from which chromatic dispersion is obtained directly. The system is described in detail and practical measurement results shown to illustrate the high accuracy of the technique and its versatility in use with all fiber types.     

Enhancement of multiplexing capability of low-coherence interferometric fiber sensor array by use of a loop topology

A novel technique for enhancing the multiplexing capability of low-coherence interferometric sensor array is proposed. The technique uses a fiber loop topology and allows for twice as many sensors as the conventional low-coherence reflectometry system to be multiplexed. Power budget and signal analyses for different sizes of sensor array are performed. A ten-sensor system was experimentally demonstrated and applied for quasi-distributed temperature measurement. An additional advantage of the technique is that it provides an extra degree of redundancy through the bidirectional interrogation of the sensor array and thus improves the system reliability.     

Theory and implementation of a Raman active fiber delay line

In an optical delay line made of a single-mode reentrant fiber loop, Raman amplification is used to compensate for recirculating signal losses. Concurrent Stokes noise amplification limits the system performances. A theoretical model shows that the signal-to-noise ratio decays as the reciprocal of the number of signal recirculations. Experimental results obtained with a 760-m-long fiber loop operated atlambda = 1.12 mum are presented. A new pump modulation technique resulting in improved output signal stability is reported whereupon optical delays up to 3 ms were achieved.     

基于实时校准技术的光纤光栅传感解调系统

报道了一种采用实时校准技术的数字化光纤光栅传感解调方案。解调系统利用锯齿波电压信号和数字相位同步信号控制可调谐光纤法布里一珀罗(TFFP)滤波器，对光纤光栅传感器阵列进行扫描式寻址，同时采用非测量环境中的参考光栅和数字温度计提供精确的参考波长，并由高速数字信号处理器(DSP)实时校准滤波器的波长读取值，很好地消除了滤波器渊谐的温度漂移、非线性和蠕动性引起的测量误差。结果表明，实验系统的波长寻址范围为1520～1570nm，扫描频率为100Hz，波长测量分辨率为5pm，应变测量分辨率为4．13με。     

Multi-band QPSK signal transmission implemented with remote up-conversion and Schottky RF detectors in a 60-GHz millimeter wave radio-over-fiber system

A simple multi-band QPSK signal transmission scheme, constructed by using an optical remote up-conversion technique and a Schottky diode RF detector, is theoretically analyzed and experimentally implemented in a 60-GHz millimeter wave (mm-wave) radio over fiber (RoF) system, for the first time. There is no need for complex system architecture or any expensive high-frequency clock source in our scheme. Simulation results show that our scheme is highly tolerant to fiber dispersion, compared with the conventional 60 GHz multi-band RoF system. In the experimental demonstration, successful delivery of QPSK signals at two 60-GHz sub-bands is achieved over 50-km fiber and 4-m wireless distance.     

Gain clamping in L-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier using a fiberBragg grating

A gain-clamping technique for the long wavelength band (L-band) erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is presented. It uses a single fiber Bragg grating (FBG) on the input side of erbium-doped fiber (EDF) to inject a portion of backward conventional band (C-band) amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) back into the system. The use of a narrow-band (NB) FBG has shown a better performance in clamped-gain level and noise figure compared to a broad-band FBG. The amplifier gain for the NB FBG set up is clamped at 15.4 dB with a variation of less than 0.3 dB for an input power as high as 0 dBm     

Spatial resolution enhancement of a Brillouin-distributed sensorusing a novel signal processing method

It is known that the ultimate spatial resolution for a Brillouin-based sensor is limited by the lifetime of the phonons in the fiber that mediate the Brillouin loss process. At optical pulse widths less than 10 ns (corresponding to one meter spatial resolution) the Brillouin line width is considerably broadened, causing a severe penalty in resolving the Brillouin frequency shift. Around 5 ns the Brillouin line width is too broad to allow an accurate frequency determination. The fiber optics group at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, has recently developed an automated system for strain measurements in a distributed sensing system that uses a novel signal processing technique to measure strain at resolutions finer than the Brillouin line width limit. Strain has been resolved to 20 μϵ at 500 mm and to 40 μϵ at 250 mm     

基于CDMA技术的光纤光栅传感系统分析研究

简要介绍了光纤光栅传感系统中常用的复用技术及其容量限制,并阐述基于CDMA技术传感系统的优点,对系统的原理和关键技术进行了理论分析。在此基础上做了初步的实验研究,实现了基于CDMA技术的光纤光栅传感系统的寻址。通过结合虚拟仪器软件LabVIEW进行数据处理,引鉴CDMA通信系统的成熟技术。基于CDMA技术的光纤光栅传感系统将有广阔的发展前景和应用前景。     

高稳定的光纤3×3耦合器干涉位移测量系统

利用光纤3×3耦合器和光纤光栅(FBG),构成能有效补偿环境干扰的光纤干涉位移测量系统。测量系统含干涉臂几乎重合的两个光纤迈克尔逊干涉仪,其中一个通过反馈环节补偿环境干扰的影响,实现对测量系统的稳定,使系统适合于在线测量;另一个用于完成测量工作。利用零差干涉相位测量技术对位移进行测量,测量结果的线性相关系数达0.999。     

线性斜边滤波器在光纤光栅传感系统中的应用

介绍线性斜边滤波器在光纤光栅传感系统中的应用,根据斜边滤波器波长解调方案的工作原理,主要介绍一种利用斜边滤波器的光纤光栅解调技术．实验采用1530／1550nm的斜边滤波器对单点光纤光栅应变和温度进行解调,结果表明该解调系统具有0．01nm的波长分辨力,该系统结构简单,易于解调．