半导体激光自混频干涉速度仪的F-P模型分析

设计了一个半导体激光自混频干涉式测量物体振动速度的实验,利用双镜F_P(法布里_珀罗)等效模型,对半导体激光自混频干涉速度仪中的干涉效应进行了理论分析,推导了干涉信号理论模型的数学表达式,讨论了影响测量信号的因素。结果表明,在半导体激光自混频干涉速度仪的无源腔中空气密度的变化、无源腔长度的变化、激光波长的变化都将会导致信号漂移,从而引起测量误差。而被测物体表面的反射率越高,越有利于测量。     

Effect of angle of incidence on self-mixing laser Doppler velocimeter and optimization of the system

Based on the theory of speckle and self-mixing interference in laser-diode, three-facet cavity model is introduced to analyze laser Doppler effect based on self-mixing interference in the case of a rough surface, and numerical solution of the signal is obtained. Simulation results of speckle-modulated Doppler signal based on self-mixing effect and tracking accuracy at different incident angles are given using parameters employed in the experiment. Simulation results indicate incident angle of around 30° is most suitable when both tracking accuracy and signal amplitude are considered. Experimental waveforms agree well with simulation results, and similar conclusions as simulation predictions about changing trend of tracking accuracies of the system at different incident angles can be made. Combining with difference frequency analog phase-lock loop (PLL) technique and appropriate sampling time, a laser Doppler velocimeter with tracking accuracy better than 1.3% in the range of 10-470 mm/s is realized.     

半导体激光自混频干涉法测振动速度

应用半导体激光自混频干涉方法可研究物体的振动速度．本文阐述了测速的基本原理，给出了信号分析的理论依据和计算方法。     

大气颗粒物多参数激光自混合传感的数值模拟与特性分析

基于颗粒物米氏散射特性、激光自混合三镜腔理论和激光器稳态条件,推导出在大气颗粒物光反馈下激光器频率、功率、线宽的理论表达式,建立了大气颗粒物光反馈下的激光自混合理论模型。同时,数值模拟和分析了大气颗粒物物理参数对激光自混合干涉信号的影响。结果表明,在一定粒径范围内,激光自混合反馈强度随大气颗粒物粒径增大先增大后减小,且反馈强度峰值出现的位置随颗粒物折射率实部的增大、虚部的减小向粒径较大处移动;自混合系统的外腔长度影响自混合干涉信号的波动深度,激光器输出光信号的幅值随外腔长度增大呈指数衰减;自混合干涉信号波动频率与大气颗粒物运动速度呈线性关系。分析结果对基于激光自混合效应的大气颗粒物多物理参数传感具有重要作用。     

基于二次反馈激光自混合新型测距方法

在基于激光自混合干涉的理论上,提出了一种利用二次反馈激光自混合干涉的新型测距方法。利用三角波电流对半导体激光器进行调制,得到一次反馈自混合干涉信号。通过对信号分析可知,当半导体激光器被调制后,会产生一系列的模跳,模跳的数量与绝对距离成正比。通过计算在一个三角波电流调制周期内模跳的数量,就可以求出绝对距离。利用多重激光自混合的概念,提出该种新型测距方法。建立了距离测量系统,进行了实验验证。实验结果表明:由于步长分辨率精度的提高,测距精度明显提高。     

Statistics of the self-mixing speckle interference in a laser diode and its application to the measurement of flow velocity

The statistical analysis of self-mixing speckles interference using Fabry-Perot cavity is described based on the theory of the speckle and the self-mixing interference in a laser diode. Speckle signal processing based on Fourier transform is presented in this paper. The linear dependence between the spectrum mean frequency and velocity of solution is given by simulation and proved by experiment. The experimental results show that this speckle signal processing can be used to measure velocity of target.     

Autocorrelation of self-mixing speckle in an EDFR laser and velocity measurement

Autocorrelation analysis for a velocity measurement based self-mixing speckle in an erbium-doped fiber ring (EDFR) laser is presented. The expression for the velocity measurement is deduced. Theoretical analysis reveals that the velocity of a random surface is inversely proportional to the autocorrelation time of the self-mixing signal produced in the EDFR laser. In experiments, a linear fit between the velocity and the reciprocal of autocorrelation time (autocorrelation frequency) is obtained for velocity measurement. In a range of velocities from 100 mm/s to 350 mm/s, the measurement errors are evaluated to be less than 5%. The signal length, the measurement distance, and the pump power are experimentally studied for gaining knowledge of the influence on the velocity measurement.     

Laser Doppler vibrometry based on self-mixing effect

In this paper, a simple, compact and low cost laser Doppler vibrometer is presented. It is simply composed of a laser diode (9 mm in diameter, 2 g of weight, emitting at 825 nm) and by a two-lens optical system designed to focus the laser radiation on the vibrating target. This sensor can measure target velocity. The working principle is based on the self-mixing effect that occurs in a semiconductor laser diode when the emitted radiation is back reflected toward the cavity and then re-introduced inside. The target velocity is calculated measuring the frequency of the peak of the spectrum of the signal generated by a photodiode mounted on the back facet of the laser diode. In this article, the design and the realisation of the vibrometer is reported. The self-mixing vibrometer has been calibrated in the range 0–300 mm/s, using a rotating disk covered with white paper. The effect of the angle of measurement and target distance are reported. Finally, the sensor has been compared with a commercial laser Doppler vibrometer using a vibrating surface as a target.     

The study of laser self-mixing vibrometer employing different feedback regime using a VCSELS

Laser interferometry based on self-mixing effect widely used to measure displacement, velocity, vibration and distance due to compactness, non-contact, as well as low cost. An important use of the self-mixing effect inside a laser diode is in optical self-mixing vibrometer. We have experimentally investigated self-mixing interference produced by the feedback of light from a vibrated target into a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser for sensing applications. In this paper, the self-mixing vibrometer employing different feedback regime is discussed and a theoretical analysis is also proposed. Numerical analysis focused on the distortion self-mixing waveform. Numerical analysis and experimental results show that mode-hop occurs when the laser self-mixing vibrometer employing at high feedback level.     

半导体激光器的自混合散斑干涉测量流体速度

提出了一种简便的激光自混合散斑干涉测量流体速度的方法。根据散斑和法布里-珀罗腔的理论,提出了半导体激光器的自混合散斑干涉模型。研究了流体运动时在半导体激光器内产生的自混合散斑干涉效应(SMPI),给出了激光器输出增益的变化及其概率密度分布。得到了激光自混合散斑干涉平均频率与流体速度之间的关系。模拟计算和实验结果验证了这个关系。利用散斑干涉的平均频率与流体速度的关系测量了高分子材料溶液的速度,并在溶液浓度和背景光变化时,对流体速度进行了测量、比较和分析。实验表明。在溶液浓度不太低时,测量误差小于8％。     

基于DSP的激光自混合干涉测振仪信号采集与处理系统

结合三角波电流调制型激光自混合干涉技术,设计了基于DSP的数据采集与处理系统,完成了对来自光电探测器的干涉信号的采集与处理。该系统接口电路简单灵活,具有采样频率可由程序设置、采集速度和精度较高,并且可以实现6通道同步采样转换的特点。实验结果表明,该数据采集与处理系统完全能够满足高速交变激光自混合干涉信号的采集与处理在实时性和高精度方面的要求。     

Fourier transform method for self-mixing interference signal analysis

Self-mixing interferometry (SMI) has been used to measure the distance and displacement. Although the principle of self-mixing interference is different conventional interference, we concluded that FFT analysis technique could also be used to detect the signal phase and increase the measurement precision of self-mixing interferometry.First the SMI signal is obtained by feeding the light from the target to cavity of laser diode, then it is pre-processed by an analog subtraction circuit to remove the overlapped output intensity due to the injection current modulation. Finally, SMI signal is analyzed by FFT phase detection method. Theoretical analysis and simulation calculations are presented. Experimentally, displacement of a PZT-driven target was measured with a precision of λ/50.     

光纤耦合自混合干涉测速系统的参数研究

针对光纤耦合自混合干涉测速系统的设计,采用F-P五镜腔模型分析了自混合干涉测速的基本原理,利用数值计算软件MATLAB研究了系统中各个参数对自混合信号波形的影响。对参数引起自混合信号波形“畸变”的情况,进行了参数的优化设计。为光纤耦合自混合测速系统设计,以及将其应用于爆轰波和冲击波研究中进行高速测量提供了参考。     

Self-mixing interference effects in tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy

We report the effects of self-mixing interference on gas detection using tunable diode laser spectroscopy. For very weak feedback, the laser diode output intensity gains a sinusoidal modulation analogous to that caused by low finesse etalons in the optical path. Our experiments show that self-mixing interference can arise from both specular reflections (e.g. cell windows) and diffuse reflections (e.g. Spectralon^™ and retroreflective tape), potentially in a wider range of circumstances than etalon-induced interference. The form and magnitude of the modulation is shown to agree with theory. We have quantified the effect of these spurious signals on methane detection using wavelength modulation spectroscopy and discuss the implications for real gas detectors.     

Research on micro-vibration measurement by a laser diode self-mixing interferometer

The self-mixing vibration signals are observed in the laser diode when the optical beam is back-scattered into the laser cavity which causes laser output power modulated. Based on these properties, a laser diode self-mixing vibrometer with wide dynamic range is proposed. This current investigation further reports new work to improve the accuracy and range of the measured vibration signals. Numerical simulations and experimental results are given and discussed. The experimental results show that the frequency measurement range can be achieved up to 22 kHz with 0.241% maximum relative error while utilizing the reflecting film. For amplitude measurement utilizing the same reflecting film, the error of measurement result is 4.77 nm which has approached nanometer order of magnitude.     

Laser self-mixing interference fibre sensor

Fibre sensors exhibit a number of advantages over other sensors such as high sensitivity, electric insulation, corrosion resistance, interference rejection and so on. And laser self-mixing interference can accurately detect the phase difference of feedback light. In this paper, a novel laser self-mixing interference fibre sensor that combines the advantages of fibre sensors with those of laser self-mixing interference is presented. Experimental configurations are set up to study the relationship between laser power output and phase of laser feedback light when the fibre trembles or when the fibre is stretched or pressed. The theoretical analysis of pressure sensors based on laser self-mixing interference is indicated to accord with the experimental results.     

激光自混合干涉测振仪的硬件系统设计

基于激光自混合干涉技术的特点,设计了一种新型半导体激光自混合干涉测振仪系统。系统将频率调制引入自混合干涉中,实现对振动物体的非接触式测量。介绍了激光自混合干涉测振仪的原理、仪器系统的光路系统设计、信号的调制模块设计、解调模块设计以及DSP系统的采集处理模块设计。该仪器体积小、成本低、易于准直、可以非接触式测量,能够测量振动频率在50kHz内的物体,其中包括非周期性振动。可以测量出振动物体的振动频率、振幅以及还原振动波形,振动幅度测量精度可以达到0．325μm,频率精度为1Hz。     

Quadrature demodulation technique for self-mixing interferometry displacement sensor

A new, to the best of our knowledge, signal processing method based on quadrature demodulation technique is presented for laser diode self-mixing interferometry(LDSMI) displacement sensor. Phase modulation of the laser beam is obtained by an electro-optic modulator (EOM) in the external cavity. Detection of the target's displacement can be easily achieved by sampling the interference signal at those times which satisfied certain conditions. The major advantage of the technique is that it does not involve any complicated calculation and insensitive to the sampling error. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the displacement measurement resolution of the laser diode self-mixing displacement sensor to a few nanometers.     

Self-mixing interference in distributed feedback laser diode with multiple external cavities

The self-mixing interference in distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD) with multiple external cavities is analyzed. Each external cavity is considered to be an optical thin film, and the equivalent reflectivity can be got from the theory of the thin film optics, the general expressions of gain and frequency in compound laser cavity are theoretically deduced. This principle is helpful to build the fiber-coupled self-mixing interference system. Considering that different parameters have influence on self-mixing interference, we make some simulation analysis at different conditions. The output of self-mixing interference is analyzed in numerical analysis, and the amplitude variations of the output gain is discussed along with different parameters, e.g., the coupling coefficient, the linewidth enhancement factor, and the reflection coefficient of external reflector.