• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 7, Issue 6, 652 (2019)
Benzhang Wang1, Baohua Fan2, Dengwang Zhou1, Chao Pang1, Yue Li1, Dexin Ba1, and Yongkang Dong1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • 2The 29th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Chengdu 610036, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.7.000652 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Benzhang Wang, Baohua Fan, Dengwang Zhou, Chao Pang, Yue Li, Dexin Ba, Yongkang Dong. High-performance optical chirp chain BOTDA by using a pattern recognition algorithm and the differential pulse-width pair technique[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(6): 652 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Optical chirp chain Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (OCC-BOTDA) has the capabilities of fast measurement, high Brillouin threshold, and freedom from the nonlocal effect; at the same time, however, it also has problems introduced by transient stimulated Brillouin scattering. The influence of the transient interaction is reflected as the broadened asymmetric Brillouin spectrum, the ghost peak, and the frequency shift of the main peak. This introduces difficulty in computing the fiber Brillouin frequency shift with good measurement accuracy. Besides, the OCC modulation causes additional noise due to the uneven amplitude response for different frequency components. In this work, we propose a high-performance OCC-BOTDA using the principal component analysis (PCA) based pattern recognition algorithm and differential pulse-width pair (DPP) technique. After building the Brillouin spectrum database (i.e., all patterns), the fiber intrinsic Brillouin frequency shift can be recognized by the PCA algorithm from a nonstandard Brillouin spectrum profile, resulting in good measurement accuracy. Meanwhile, the DPP technique, subtracting between two Brillouin signals generated by two wide-width pump pulses, is utilized to reduce the OCC modulation noise and avoid the pulse self-phase modulation effect in long-range BOTDA sensing. In the experiment, a temperature measurement with 1.3?MHz measurement precision, 4?m spatial resolution, and 5?s measurement time is achieved over a 100?km single-mode fiber.
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    Benzhang Wang, Baohua Fan, Dengwang Zhou, Chao Pang, Yue Li, Dexin Ba, Yongkang Dong. High-performance optical chirp chain BOTDA by using a pattern recognition algorithm and the differential pulse-width pair technique[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(6): 652
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