The present invention belongs to the field of optical fiber sensing technology, in particular eliminate the impact of backscattered light in an optical fiber sensor.
Optical fiber sensing technology is often used in large-scale, long-distance monitoring, such as security monitoring used in oil pipelines, high-voltage power grids, pipelines, communications cable and other infrastructure, which the fiber used to be the sensor, real-timely acquiring related disturbance signal, determine the location of the disturbance occurred by the analysis characterize. The structure of single core feedback optical path is: using a single fiber as sensing fiber, the fiber itself is not closed, only apply a feedback device at the end of the fiber, such as a mirror constituting interference optical path. In practice, this structure laying is flexible. The characteristics of such monitoring systems is: light carrying the disturbance information transmitted to the end of the fiber, then reflect by feedback device.
The following is a positioning technology of single core feedback positioning system.
As shown in
φ1(t)=φ(t)+φ(t−T)
wherein, T=2neffL/c, L is the distance between disturbance point D and feedback device 2, c is the speed of light in vacuum, neff is the effective refractive index of the optical fiber.
As shown in
Interference optical path include the following parts: N*M (N, M are integers) coupler 3, P*Q (P, Q are integers) coupler 4, optical fiber delayer 5 (delay τ), an optical fiber (optical cable) 6, and feedback device 2. 3a1, 3a2, . . . , 3aN, 3b1, 3b2 are ports of coupler 3, 3a1, 3a2, . . . , 3aN are co-rotating ports with a total of N, 3b1, 3b2 are two ports in another group co-rotating ports (with a total of M) of coupler 3. 4a1, 4a2, 4b1 are ports of coupler 4, 4a1, 4a2 are two ports in a group co-rotating ports (with a total of P) of coupler 4, 4b1 are two ports in another group co-rotating ports (with a total of Q) of coupler 4. Optical fiber 6 is induction optical fiber. Feedback device 2 make the light transmitted along the fiber go back to the fiber 6 and return to the coupler 4. Light source input through the port 3a1 of coupler 3, after splitting in coupler 3, output respectively through the port 3b1, 3b2, two optical paths is:
: 3b1→5→4a1→4b1→6→2→6→4b1→4a2→3b2
II: 3b2→4a2→4b1→6→2→6→4b1→4a1→5→3b1
The two optical paths join at coupler 3 again and generate interference, interference signals output respectively through port 3a1, 3a2, . . . , 3aN.
In the interference optical path, the light firstly enter delayer 5 and then enter fiber cable 6, the phase modulation applied to the light is:
φ2(t)=φ(t−τ)+φ(t−τ−T)
Phase difference between two coherent interference lights is:
Δφ=[φ(t)+φ(t−T)]−[φ(t−τ)+φ(t−τ−T)]
In the spectrum of phase difference, there is a frequency drop point, or “notch point”, and we can determine the location of the disturbance arising according to the notch point. “Notch point” is shown in
wherein, fnull(k) is frequency of k-order notch point.
We can see from the above principle, the coherent light must transmit from the endpoint 1 of sensing optical fiber 6 to endpoint 2 and then return to sensing optical fiber 6, in order to carry the position “L” message. However, in practice, due to the structural characteristics of the optical fiber and the fiber itself defects and other reasons, there is a scattered light in optical fibers, such as Rayleigh scattering light and the like.
As shown in
I: 3b1→5→4a1→4b1→6→7→6→4b1→4a2→3b2
II: 3b2→4a2→4b1→6→7→6→4b1→4a1→5→3b1
Because of similar spectral characteristics, the optical path are equal without disturbance, and therefore join at the coupler 3 again will also occur interference. Obviously, the information carried by the two beam of interference light is the length L7 between point 7 and disturbance point D. 8 is another scattering point, the length information carried by the interference formed by backscatter is the length L8 between point 8 and disturbance point D, apparently, L7≠L8≠L, since these interference is mixed at the output, the interference light generated by Brillouin backscattered light or Raman backscattered light can be filter out by optical filter, but for the interference light generated by Rayleigh scattering light, or the interference light generated by contact point of optical path, it is impossible to eliminate by optical filtering method, will affect the purity of useful interference signal, and will directly affect the accuracy of the disturbance L position. Generally, the intensity of interference generated by backscattered light, contact reflected is significantly less than the intensity of interference generated by reflected light (effective interference signal), and will not have a significant impact on the effective interference signal, accuracy of L can meet the actual needs. But after the monitoring circuit reach a certain length, scattered light affects the entire line obviously, then we can observe the obvious interference signal distortion has occurred, the system can not obtain a valid interference signal normally.
Similarly, reflection by the contact point of optical path can also cause the same adverse effects on the interference signal.
The impact of scatter (reflect) light in the conventional path is not only the obvious restriction in monitoring system. When a large scatter (reflect) point exists, the system can not be properly tested in the line.
In order to cut the impact of the signal, the invention 201010508357.2 (
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method to eliminate the impact of backscattered light in optical fiber sensor.
The present invention provides a method, use phase modulation technique to separate the target signal from the interfering signals formed by scattering/reflecting in optical fiber path by a simple high-pass filtering, to obtain pure signal having effective disturbance position signal. The setting of phase-modulated signal's amplitude make sidebands of 0 frequency do not contain a valid form of components, only contains interference signal by backscatter, but the fundamental and harmonic frequency modulation sidebands do not include interference signal. On this basis, using a high-pass filter can eliminate the disturbing signal of stray light. Compared with the traditional PGC demodulation, demodulation without using phase modulation signal applied at the signal as a reference signal homologous, structure of this method is simple and easier to implement. Specific methods are as follows.
Connection in optical path is shown in
Phase modulator introduce the interferometer phase difference Δφc(t), after reaching feedback means 2 through the phase modulator, the light reflect to the optical cable and occurs interference signal, the signal is expressed as:
P=p1 cos [φ0+Δφ1(t)+Δφc(t)] (1)
wherein, p1 is a constant coefficient related to the system parameters, φ0 is an initial phase of the interference structures and a constant, Δφ1(t) is an interference phase difference caused by disturbance;
As to the back scattered light caused by previous path in the phase modulator 9 in optical fable, do not through phase modulator as shown in
wherein, pBi is an interference coefficient caused by the i-th scattering point of the optical fiber, φB 0 i is an initial phase corresponding to the i-th scattering point, ΔφB1i(t) is an interference phase difference corresponding to the i-th scattering point and caused by disturbance,
represented the sum of all the scattered points along the previous induction fiber of phase modulator 9.
The total output signal change portion indicates as follows:
Palt=P+PB (3)
sinusoidal signal applied to the phase modulator 9 have frequency fm, sinusoidal carrier signal Δφc(t) generated by the optical path can be expressed as:
Δφc(t)=φm cos(2πfmt) (4)
φm is the amplitude of Δφc(t).
Jn order Bessel function expansion of Formula (1) is expressed as:
Adjusting the amplitude of the sinusoidal signal, so that:
J0(φm)=0 (7)
Palt=P+PB=PB+p1 cos(φ0+Δφ1(t))[2J2(φm)cos(4πfmt)+ . . . ]+p1 sin(φ0+Δφ1(t))[2J1(φm)cos(2πfmt)+2J3(φm)cos(6πfmt)+ . . . ] (8)
At this time,
Each component in (9), without regard to amplitude variations, only consider the frequency distribution, 2p1JN(φm)cos(φ01+Δφ1(t))cos(2Nπfmt) (N=1, 3, 5, . . . ) is move frequency spectrum of 2p1JN(φm)cos(φ01+Δφ1(t)) from 0 frequency to Nfm; 2p1JM(φm)sin(φ01+Δφ1(t))cos(2Mπfmt) (M=2, 4, 6, . . . ) is move frequency spectrum of 2p1JN(φm2)sin(φ01+Δφ1(t)) from 0 frequency to Mfm. The frequency component of PB is near 0 frequency. Suppose fs1max is the max frequency of sin(φ01+Δφ1 (t)) (or cos(φ01+Δφ1(t))), fsBmax is the max frequency of PB, then fm can be:
fm>fsBmax+fs1max (10)
that is, fm, is large enough to make the spectral of PB and P do not overlap, then use the high-pass filter to filter out PB to get a complete signal P with no interference. This may separate interference signal caused by scattering point from the reflected light formed by arriving the feedback device. After obtaining signal P, further use phase reconstruct method commonly used in interference structure, the restore signal can be obtained:
Δφ(t)=Δφ1(t)+φm cos(2πfmt) (11)
It can be seen that while satisfying the formula (8) and fm is located out of the frequency component of Δφ1(t), use the filtering technology to filter out frequency components of fm, then obtain Δφ1(t) to demodulate the signal.
The interference structure has two interference output ports, the interference signals of the two ports are expressed as:
φ11 and φ12 are an initial phase corresponding to the interference output of the two ports, and φ11−φ12≠nπ, n; is an integer.
According to the method previously described in the present invention, we can be obtained two signals with a fixed phase difference:
P3a2=p1 cos [φ11+Δφ1(t)+φm cos(2πfmt)] (14)
P3a3=p1 cos [φ12+Δφ1(t)+φm cos(2πfmt)] (15)
According to formula (14) and formula (15), signal Δφ(t) can be restored, and use the filtering technology to filter out frequency components of fm, then obtain signal Δφ1(t).
According to the above description, the specific steps of the inventive method are summarized as follows:
1) concatenating phase modulator 9 in the tail of a single core feedback sensing fiber;
2) Selecting signal frequency fm loaded in phase modulator 9, fm satisfy the following conditions:
fm>fsBmax+fs1max, and fm is located out of the frequency component of Δφ1(t);
3) applying a sinusoidal signal at the phase modulator, the carrier generated by the modulated signal is expressed as:
Δφc(t)=φm cos(2πfmt);
4) adjusting the amplitude of the sinusoidal signal, so that:
J0(φm)=0,
an frequency component of the effective interference signal formed by feedback device 2 distributes at the sideband of the fundamental frequency and multiple frequency carrier frequency fm, frequency components are not in the vicinity of zero frequency, effective interference signal P is expressed as:
At this time, only interfering signal PB formed by backscattered/backreflected light's interference is in the vicinity of zero frequency;
5) high-pass filtering Palt to filter out the interference signal PB and remain effective signal P, separating interference signal with effective signal to get effective signal; and
6) using effective signal P to further reconstruct signal Δφ(t):
Δφ(t)=Δφ1(t)+φm cos(2πfmt)
Advantage of the present invention is that it can effectively eliminate the impact of backscattered (reflected) light in single core optical fiber sensing light path, the useful information is extracted from the signal of serious disturbances, which significantly improves the measurement of distance, enhance adaptability to the line of interference measurement system. The technology uses a unique carrier signal loading and demodulating method, no need to provided a reference signal homologous with carry signal at signal demodulation side like the conventional PGC demodulation method. Therefore, in the long-distance monitoring, easier to monitor end of the cable extending freely. Meanwhile, the technology requires no reference signal, structure of this method is simple and easier to implement.
Distributed optical fiber line monitoring system of the invention can be widely used in long distance monitoring of safety monitoring in the field of telecommunications lines, power transmission lines, gas pipelines, oil pipelines, border; also be used for safety monitoring of large buildings such as dams, tunnels, mines, etc.
1: end of the sensing optical fiber 6, 2: feedback device, 3: for the N*M (N, M are integers) coupler, 4: P*Q (P, Q are integers) coupler, 5: optical fiber delayer, delay τ, 6: sensor optical fiber (optical cable) and feedback device 2 constituted, 3a1, 3a2, . . . , 3aN, 3b1, 3b2: port of coupler 3, 3a1, 3a2, . . . , 3aN: co-rotating ports with a total of N, 3b1, 3b2: two ports in another group co-rotating ports (with a total of M) of coupler 3. 4a1, 4a2, 4b1: ports of coupler 4, 4a1, 4a2: two ports in a group co-rotating ports (with a total of P) of coupler 4, 4b1: two ports in another group co-rotating ports (with a total of Q) of coupler 4. 7, 8: scattering point in optical fiber, 9: phase modulator.
The measurement system of the embodiment use interference structure shown in
In the single core sensing path, an active joint connection point is 10 km from end of sensing optical cable 6 (feedback device 2), at which point reflection >2 dB, disturbance applied near the port 4b1 to sensor cable 6. If do not use this The method of the invention, the system can not properly positioned. After use the modulation and demodulation method, the system can locate accurately.
Suppose the max frequency of Δφ1(t)) is fsφmax, then:
fm>fsBmax+fs1maxfm>fsφmax (18)
according to the method described above, the phase modulation amplitude set so as to satisfy equation (7), high-pass filter interference signal to filter out stray light caused by interference, will receive the following signals:
then, use formula (19) and formula (20), signal Δφ(t) can be restored (Reference: Wu Hongyan, etc; fiber interference positioning system based signal demodulation technique [J]; sensors and micro systems, 2007, 26 (5): p 45-51):
Δφ(t)=Δφ1(t)+φm cos(2πfmt) (16)
Low-pass filter Δφ(t), we can obtain Δφ1(t).
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