• Photonic Sensors
  • Vol. 5, Issue 1, 91 (2015)
Changbin TIAN, Jun CHANG*, Qiang WANG, Wei WEI, and and Cunguang ZHU
Author Affiliations
  • School of Information Science and Engineering and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s13320-014-0214-z Cite this Article
    Changbin TIAN, Jun CHANG, Qiang WANG, Wei WEI, and Cunguang ZHU. Realization of Rapid Debugging for Detection Circuit of Optical Fiber Gas Sensor: Using an Analog Signal Source[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2015, 5(1): 91 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    An optical fiber gas sensor mainly consists of two parts: optical part and detection circuit. In the debugging for the detection circuit, the optical part usually serves as a signal source. However, in the debugging condition, the optical part can be easily influenced by many factors, such as the fluctuation of ambient temperature or driving current resulting in instability of the wavelength and intensity for the laser; for dual-beam sensor, the different bends and stresses of the optical fiber will lead to the fluctuation of the intensity and phase; the intensity noise from the collimator, coupler, and other optical devices in the system will also result in the impurity of the optical part based signal source. In order to dramatically improve the debugging efficiency of the detection circuit and shorten the period of research and development, this paper describes an analog signal source, consisting of a single chip microcomputer (SCM), an amplifier circuit, and a voltage-to-current conversion circuit. It can be used to realize the rapid debugging detection circuit of the optical fiber gas sensor instead of optical part based signal source. This analog signal source performs well with many other advantages, such as the simple operation, small size, and light weight.
    Changbin TIAN, Jun CHANG, Qiang WANG, Wei WEI, and Cunguang ZHU. Realization of Rapid Debugging for Detection Circuit of Optical Fiber Gas Sensor: Using an Analog Signal Source[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2015, 5(1): 91
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