带宽调制型单光纤光栅温变无补偿位移传感

报道了利用反射谱带宽调制和光强差分探测技术实现单一光纤光栅温变无补偿位移精确测量的新方法。设计了一种结构新颖的曲臂梁位移传感装置,结合光波导理论与材料力学原理分析了光纤光栅在高斯应变作用下光栅反射谱侧向梯度展宽的成因,理论推导了特殊结构梁在外力作用下光栅反射谱带宽/反射光强与压力之间的响应关系。光栅反射谱侧向梯度展宽的同时反射光强线性增加,利用光强差分检测方法消除光源出光抖动的影响,提高了位移测量精度。基于带宽调制的光纤光栅位移传感方法免受温度变化的影响,在-10℃~80℃的温度变化范围内,测量误差小于1.2%,实现了单光纤光栅温变无补偿位移测量。     

光强检测型光纤光栅温变不敏感动态压力传感研究

报道了基于光纤光栅反射谱带宽调制和光强差分检测技术实现单一光纤光栅温变不敏感动态压力传感的新方法。设计了一种结构新颖的双孔梁压力传感装置,依据双孔梁有限元受力分析将光纤光栅准确定位于线性梯度应变区,压力作用下光纤光栅反射谱对称展宽,反射光强线性正比于压力变化。基于光波导理论和材料力学原理推导了线性梯度应变场作用下光栅反射谱带宽、反射光强与压力之间的响应关系。利用光强差分检测技术取代传统波长解调方法,简化解调过程的同时传感系统免受温变影响。实验表明,在-10~80℃的温度变化范围内,系统测量误差小于总量程(120kPa)的1.8%,动态响应速度约80Hz,重复测量系统输出稳定,具有较好的应用价值。     

Temperature-insensitive fiber Bragg grating dynamic pressure sensing system

Temperature-insensitive dynamic pressure measurement using a single fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based on reflection spectrum bandwidth modulation and optical power detection is proposed. A specifically designed double-hole cantilever beam is used to provide a pressure-induced axial strain gradient along the sensing FBG and is also used to modulate the reflection bandwidth of the grating. The bandwidth modulation is immune to spatially uniform temperature effects, and the pressure can be unambiguously determined by measuring the reflected optical power, avoiding the complex wavelength interrogation system. The system acquisition time is up to 85 Hz for dynamic pressure measurement, and the thermal fluctuation is kept less than 1.2% full-scale for a temperature range of -10 degrees C to 80 degrees C.     

High-sensitivity temperature sensor based on Bragg grating in BDK-doped photosensitive polymer optical fiber

A single-mode polymer optical fiber (POF) with highly photosensitive core doped with benzil dimethyl ketal (BDK) is fabricated and used for writing Bragg grating through the two-beam interference method. The Bragg wavelength of the grating is about 1570 nm, while the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the reflection peak is 0.3 nm. The temperature response of POF Bragg grating is theoretically analyzed and experimentally measured in contrast to silica optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG). The result shows that the temperature character of POF Bragg grating is negative, which is opposite to the silica optical FBG. The absolute value of the temperature response of POF Bragg grating is one order of magnitude higher than that of the silica optical FBG, making POF Bragg grating appear to be very attractive for constructing temperature sensors with high resolution.     

Resolution and sensitivity enhancements in strong grating based fiber Fabry–Perot interferometric sensor system utilizing multiple reflection beams

We investigate an asymmetric intensive fiber Bragg grating (FBG) defined Fabry–Perot (F–P) sensor system decoded by a multiple-path-matched Michelson interferometer. The interrogation of higher order reflection beams cannot only solve the problem of the degraded resolution induced by the spectral mismatch of the FBGs, but also amplify the effect of the fiber strain on the phase of the light. We demonstrate multiple reflection beams in the F–P cavity based on the concept of the FBG effective length for constructing respective interrogation interferometers, and present a cost function with optimized system parameters to improve noise properties. The performances of interrogating the second, third and fourth order reflection beams are compared in a strain sensing experiment arrangement. Under the condition of the same optical path length mismatch, the interrogation of the fourth order reflection beam can achieve 9.8 dB sensitivity enhancement and 3 dB resolution promotion compared with the result using the second order reflection beam.     

光纤光栅与受激布里渊信号的耦合特性

近年来,光纤布拉格光栅传感器与全分布式光纤传感器的融合技术受到了广泛关注,然而光纤布拉格光栅与布里渊信号之间的耦合特性鲜有报道。本文研究了光栅类型、波长、反射率及光纤的光致折射率对受激布里渊信号的影响规律,并探讨了空间分辨率对光纤布拉格光栅定位功能的影响。实验结果表明,在布里渊光时域分析系统中,光纤布拉格光栅处有尖锐的反射峰,而啁啾光栅、长周期光栅及光致折射率变化的光纤处均未出现尖锐的反射峰;光纤布拉格光栅反射率与受激布里渊散射功率谱无关;当光纤布拉格光栅的波长接近1 550 nm时,对受激布里渊频移测量的影响最大;在8 m的长度范围内,光纤布拉格光栅的定位误差约为4 cm,并且与空间分辨率无关。     

光纤光栅啁啾化传感研究

提出了光纤光栅啁啾化传感概念和传感机理,将光纤光栅微观分解为栅区长度范围的许多具有独立感知能力且彼此关联的有效作用子栅集,表述了有效作用子栅集与待测环境场空间梯度分布之间的对应关系,从而较好地解释了光纤光栅啁啾谱产生的内在机理.理论推导并实验验证了光栅啁啾谱各谱参量(波长、带宽和反射光强)与待测环境场(温度和应变)之间的对应关系,为利用单一光纤光栅实现多参量同时区分测量、任意非均匀空间分布场传感提供了科学有效的解决方法.     

分体插接式光纤光栅应变片设计与实现

提出一种适合作为二次变换元件使用的通用型应变传感预制结构——光纤光栅应变片.它以裸Bragg光栅为研究对象,采用分体式设计方法把敏感光栅与连接光纤分别封装于独立的基体中,并通过两个基体相互之间的插入实现了Bragg光栅与测量光路的机械连接.理论分析和实验研究表明:光纤光栅应变片具有与Bragg光栅相同的反射谱,其测量线性度好,灵敏度高,温度误差则随被测试件性质不同而变化,当试件材料与基底材料一致时,温度误差可以忽略.     

Photonic instantaneous measurement of microwave frequency using fiber Bragg grating

A photonic approach to realizing instantaneous measurement of microwave frequency based on optical monitoring using a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is proposed and demonstrated. In the approach, a frequency-unknown microwave signal is modulated on an optical carrier in a Mach-Zehnder modulator biased at the minimum transmission point. After detecting the transmission and reflection optical powers at the output of the FBG, the microwave frequency can be determined according to the value of transmission-to-reflection power ratio, due to the fixed relationship between the microwave frequency and the power ratio. A proof-of-concept experiment has been performed, which demonstrates that a measurement resolution of ±0.08 GHz over a 10 GHz measurement bandwidth is achieved. The measurement performance in terms of resolution is better than previously reported results.     

植入碳纤维蜂窝夹芯结构的光纤光栅热载荷响应光谱研究

针对航天领域复合材料结构在空间服役环境的热响应监测需求,研究了一种热载荷作用下基于光纤Bragg光栅(FBG)反射光谱特征分析的碳纤维蜂窝夹芯结构监测方法。将光纤Bragg光栅传感器分别植入碳纤维蜂窝夹芯结构的不同铺层,通过监测不同热载荷下各铺层位置的光纤光栅反射光谱,得到碳纤维蜂窝夹芯结构相关铺层位置热应变特征。研究表明,碳纤维蜂窝夹芯结构不同材料铺层的热应变特征存在一定差异。植入外蒙皮表面与玻璃布之间的光纤光栅反射光谱随着温度升高,中心波长向长波方向漂移,且波形未出现明显改变。埋植于外蒙皮第二、三层碳纤维织物预浸料之间的光栅反射光谱随着温度降低逐渐出现旁瓣、多峰等啁啾效应,其主峰与右侧次峰中心波长均向短波方向逐渐漂移,主峰峰值幅度变化较小,温度灵敏度约为5.56×10-3 dBm·℃-1,而右侧次峰幅度显著增大,温度灵敏度约为40.32×10-3 dBm·℃-1;埋植于内蒙皮和蜂窝芯子之间的光栅反射光谱随着温度降低,其半波峰带宽逐渐增大,变化率约为3.19 pm·℃-1,且出现显著多峰趋势,这是由于层间热应力分布不均匀所形成。在-70~+60 ℃温度范围,各植入层热应变均随温度升高而增大,且变化趋势相接近,而在+60~+120 ℃温度范围内,各植入层热应变变化趋势呈现显著差异。这些特性能够为后继空间环境复合材料航天器结构状态在轨监测提供有益帮助。     

Underwater Acoustic Sensor with Fiber Bragg Grating

A new type of underwater acoustic sensor is proposed with an optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG). Because of the photoelasticity with respect to the refractive index and the elasticity of the fiber, the sound pressure in water modulates the Bragg reflection wavelength and, in turn, the intensity of the laser light transmitted through the FBG fiber. Good linearity between the detected signal and the sound pressure is obtained in the range from 81 dB to 140 dB re 1 μPa. Since the upper and lower limits of the acoustic signal level for operation of the sensor are limited by the driving circuit and the transduction of the sound in water, the sensor is expected to operate with much larger dynamic range both at higher and lower pressure levels. Operation of the sensor is very stable with the insertion of optical isolators into the system, although without the isolators the output signal fluctuates at low frequency due to the Fabry-Perot interference effect between the FBG and the various facets.     

Approach to all-optical bipolar direct-sequence ultrawideband coding

An approach to all-optical bipolar direct-sequence ultrawideband (UWB) encoding for multiple access communications is proposed and demonstrated. The bipolar coding is performed based on electro-optic phase modulation and phase modulation to intensity modulation (PM-IM) conversion in a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) array that serves as a multichannel frequency discriminator. The chip number and the chip period of the code are determined by the number of FBGs and their physical separation. By locating the optical carriers that carry a Gaussian pulse at the left or right slopes of the FBG reflection spectra, bipolar direct-sequence UWB codes are generated. A bipolar UWB coding system with a code length of 4 is experimentally demonstrated.     

Optical Properties of High Sensitivity Fiber Bragg Grating on Temperature Sensor

In this paper, the spectrum shift properties of the center reflection wavelength detected to be based on the FBG sensor with ambient temperature change. The basic theoretical methods and numerical simulation for the spectral properties of uniform Bragg grating is analyzed by using coupling mode theory which is optical properties of high sensitivity fiber Bragg grating on temperature sensor in accordance with experiment.     

Proposed Power-Equalized EDFA Modules Using Fiber Bragg Gratings with Various Reflectivities

We proposed and experimentally demonstrated two power-equalized erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) modules using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) with various reflectivities for individual channels. The transmission type power-equalized EDFA module is low-cost for its simple design, while the reflection type power-equalized EDFA module can suppress most of the amplified spontaneous emission noise. Both consist of a bidirectional EDFA, a set of FBG chains with suitable reflectivities, and an optical isolator/optical circulator. They can find potential applications in wavelength division multiplexing lightwave transmission systems.     

双长周期光栅调制的光纤光栅光谱分析及其在智能结构监测中的应用

提出一种双长周期光栅(LPFG)调制光纤Bragg光栅(FBG)传感器光谱的方法。双LPFG是由两个中心波长一致的LPFG构成,FBG反射光谱位于双LPFG透射光谱的线性范围内。在对FBG及双LPFG光谱分析的基础上,利用双LPFG的带阻滤波特性,获得FBG反射光经双LPFG调制后的出射光谱并进行分析。将FBG粘贴于钢梁表面,当钢梁产生弯曲应变时,FBG光谱的中心波长发生偏移,经双LPFG调制的FBG光谱的峰值随之变化,引起双LPFG出射光强的变化。采用光电探测器监测经双LPFG调制后FBG的输出光强,得滤波后光强与FBG中心波长变化成线性关系,可探测的材料(钢梁)最小应变为1.05 με。将该方案应用于光纤智能结构冲击监测中,采用摆锤冲击法对四边固支碳纤维板(CFP)试件进行冲击,利用FBG测量板结构的冲击响应信号,系统采集到的动态信号时域波形及频谱与电涡流位移计的测量结果吻合得很好, 实验结果表明采用该调制、解调方案测量结构的冲击响应是可行的。研究结果为FBG在光纤智能结构动态监测领域提供了实验参考。     

Industrial and medical applications of fiber Bragg gratings(Invited Paper)

The uses of optical fibers are numerous, and over the past few decades, they have extended from optical fiber communications to a wide variety of sensing applications. In particular, fiber Bragg grating(FBG) sensors inscribed in single-mode optical fibers offer significant advantages over more conventional electrical sensors and have been successfully deployed in many different industries. In this Review, we review the applications of intrinsic FBG pressure and flow sensors in oil and gas and the deployment of FBG sensing networks in railways.The promising prospect of using polymer FBGs in wearable medical devices is also described.     

光纤Bragg光栅非线性开关动态特性研究

基于光纤Bragg光栅中脉冲演变遵循的非线性耦合模方程,数值分析了光纤Bragg光栅在禁带附近由非线性光学特性导致的Bragg波长偏移。仿真结果表明：随着输入信号功率的增大,光栅的布拉格波长向长波方向移动,反射峰值下降,反射带宽变窄。进一步研究了基于此效应的全光自开关特性,结果表明：此开关的稳定时间短,并且输出脉冲形状保持良好。因此,这种具有高非线性系数的光纤光栅实现的全光开关在全光信号处理方面具有广泛的应用前景。     

小直径光纤光栅的研制及传感交叉敏感研究

研究了小直径光纤光栅的研制以及传感中的温度应变交叉敏感问题.首先根据耦合模理论,分析了小直径光纤Bragg光栅光谱特性,确定了包覆层为80 μm的单模光纤加工成中心波长为1 528 nm的Bragg光栅的栅长及周期,并研究了小直径光纤光栅与解设备之间的连接方式.其次利用等强度梁的变形特点,结合矩阵法,提出基于等强度悬臂梁双Bragg光纤光栅矩阵算法,对小直径光纤Bragg光栅的交叉敏感问题进行研究.温度和应变的实验辨别误差分别为5%和6%.实验结果表明,该方法可以分离温度和应变对光纤Bragg光栅传感的影响.采用该方法去除交叉影响,K矩阵始终存在逆矩阵,因此对所采用的光栅无特殊要求,从而扩大了光纤光栅选用范围,并将温度和应变识别出来.     

Frequency tuning and doubling in Yb-doped fiber lasers

A compact Yb-doped fiber laser (YDFL) based on a tunable fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with ～6 W output power and ～45 nm tuning around 1080 nm has been developed. The laser output power and its spectral width (～0.15 nm) do not change significantly at the tuning, while the FBG reflection coefficient increases with an increase in FBG compression. It has been shown that this increase is due to stress-induced changes in the FBG’s refractive-index modulation amplitude. Intracavity frequency doubling in the YDFL has also been performed. About 0.4 W of green radiation with tuning in the range 540–548 nm has been achieved with a KTP nonlinear crystal.