KEYWORDS: Frequency modulation, Signal to noise ratio, Sensing systems, Pulsed laser operation, Optical filters, Signal detection, Data acquisition, Phase shift keying, Fiber optics sensors, Radar signal processing, Compressed sensing
We reported a new method based on additive random sampling (ARS) and non-linear frequency modulation (NLFM) to enhance the frequency response of long-range phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (φ-OTDR) system. Using the NLFM interrogation pulse, the side-lobe suppression ratio (SLSR) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the demodulated traces are improved, and phase signal detection with less than 3m spatial resolution is achieved over 50 km sensing range. By modulating the NLFM laser pulse intervals, we realize the ARS and the uniform sampling alternately for every sensing point of the long interrogation fiber, and therefore the frequency domain aliasing is avoided. We test the proposed system by detected a 20 kHz harmonic signal, and this signal is well identified and reconstructed over 50 km sensing range.
The round trip time of the light pulse limits the maximum detectable frequency response range of vibration in phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry (φ-OTDR). We propose a method to break the frequency response range restriction of φ-OTDR system by modulating the light pulse interval randomly which enables a random sampling for every vibration point in a long sensing fiber. This sub-Nyquist randomized sampling method is suits for detecting sparse-wideband- frequency vibration signals. Up to MHz resonance vibration signal with over dozens of frequency components and 1.153MHz single frequency vibration signal are clearly identified for a sensing range of 9.6km with 10kHz maximum sampling rate.
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