Optical pulse coding technique can improve some performance such as sensing distance of Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analyzers (BOTDA) with the compatibility of its conventional device, and it often apply the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technique on pulse generation. To meet the requirement of fast measurement and system integration of BOTDA, a FPGA-based pulse coding and decoding technique is proposed in this paper, which accelerates the decoding process by parallelization and pipelining. The technique is tested in a BOTDA system with 100km measuring distance, 250MHz sampling rate and 255-bit Simplex coding, and achieves a decoding delay of 72ns to realize real-time decoding. In the experiment, the technique has an effect on improving the performance of BOTDA on measurement speed, sensing distance and spatial resolution on long sensing distance, comparing with the same system without pulse coding.
The Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analyzer (BOTDA) is based on the Brillouin scattering effect which is sensitive to the temperature and strain of the fiber at the same time. It is widely used in the field of large-scale structural monitoring. With the continuous development of market demand, the dynamics of the original BOTDA equipment The response speed, sensing distance, spatial resolution, and measurement error can no longer meet the application of various scenarios. This puts forward higher requirements for the signal-to-noise ratio of the BOTDA system. The image denoising algorithm based on non-local mean filtering can be Make full use of the similarity between two-dimensional image signals. In this article, we proposed an adaptive image denoising algorithm to be applied to the BOTDA system, and got good results.
In this paper, combining with the tenth anniversary load test of Sutong Bridge, we proposed the Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA) to conduct health monitoring research on the bridge, and completed the following three aspects: Firstly as an auxiliary measure of strain monitoring, monitor the level of stress and strain along the longitudinal bridge to each position. Secondly through the parking of the vehicles at different positions on the bridge pavement, the influence lines on the overall structural stress of the bridge are obtained. Thirdly through the long-term strain monitoring of the bridge, the impact of the usual traffic load information on the bridge strain is obtained.The results show that the technology not only breaks through the monitoring bottleneck of traditional point sensors, but also realizes distributed measurement of strain on the transmission path; it can also be used for real-time monitoring, damage identification, crack location, settlement monitoring of traffic load information of bridges and other structures.. Compared with the traditional sensor test results, the effectiveness and frontier of the technology are proved, and the significance of the distributed fiber-optic sensor technology for the health monitoring of major structures such as bridges is fully explained.
In this paper we propose a low-cost and stable configuration of Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA). Both pump and probe are generated by one single laser source for steady frequency beating. Polarization-maintaining modulators and amplifiers have been applied into the system in order to suppress the ground noise and to control the stability of the pump pulse. The probe is filtered and amplified to obtain the Stokes wave. The bias voltages of modulators are carefully controlled. We implement the prototype of interrogator by using this method and compare it with commercial products. The result shows that the long-term stability of the prototype is three times higher than that of commercial product.
In this paper, Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA) is proposed to solve the problem that the traditional point sensor is difficult to realize the comprehensive safety monitoring of bridges and so on. This technology not only breaks through the bottleneck of traditional monitoring point sensor, realize the distributed measurement of temperature and strain on a transmission path; can also be used for bridge and other structures of the damage identification, fracture positioning, settlement monitoring. The effectiveness and frontier of the technology are proved by comparing the test of the indoor model beam and the external field bridge, and the significance of the distributed optical fiber sensing technology to the monitoring of the important structure of the bridge is fully explained.
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