Experimental study on minimum resolvable velocity for heterodyne laser Doppler vibrometry

A high spatial resolution,high velocity resolution all-fiber laser Doppler vibrometry(LDV) based on heterodyne detection for vibration measurements is reported.A linewidth of 1-kHz single-mode continuous fiber laser,polarization-preserving fiber,and a telescope with 30-mm aperture are used in this LDV.With the inphase-quadrature circuit and the digital differentiating discriminator,a high velocity resolution of 96.9 nm/s and a high displacement resolution of 2.5 pm are obtained simultaneously with a glass a...     

Research on heterodyne efficiency of laser Doppler velocimeter

Heterodyne efficiency is a very important factor in a laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV). Gaussian-Airy mode is put forward to analyze the heterodyne efficiency. And the calculate formulas and results of simulation of heterodyne efficiency are given. The results of numerical analysis show that heterodyne efficiency of LDV depends on the parameters—x₀, A, θ and x_a. Heterodyne efficiency can reach 81.45%, when x₀ = 3.59, A = 5.04 and θ = x_a = 0. At last, the antenna theorem of LDV is derived, and a defocused telescope system is used to adjust the waist's position and radius of the reference beam to match the signal beam.     

多普勒振镜正弦调制多光束激光外差测量玻璃厚度的方法

本文提出了一种多普勒振镜正弦调制多光束激光外差测量玻璃厚度的新方法. 基于激光外差技术和多普勒效应, 通过做简谐振动的多普勒振镜对不同时刻入射光的频率进行正弦调制, 把待测厚度信息加载到外差信号的频率差中, 通过快速傅里叶变换对外差信号解调后可以同时得到多个待测玻璃厚度值, 经加权平均处理可以提高待测厚度的测量精度. 利用这种新方法, 通过MATLAB仿真测量了不同玻璃厚度值, 结果表明：该测量结果的最大相对误差小于0.008%.     

自适应滤波技术在激光多普勒测速仪中的应用

激光多普勒测速仪检测系统提取的光电信号中存在较大的噪声信号。为了消除这些噪声干扰, 提高激光多普勒测速仪的测量精度,提出一种新的信号处理方法,将最小均方差自适应滤波技术应用于激光多普勒测量中,利用多普勒信号和噪声信号的统计特性,以最小均方误差估计为准则,最大程度地滤除噪声信号。阐述了最小均方差自适应滤波算法的基本原理,在MATLAB平台上将其应用于理想正弦信号进行仿真,并将其应用于实测多普勒信号的处理中。仿真和实验均表明,该技术可以有效抑制激光多普勒测量中的多频率噪声的干扰,大大提高多普勒信号的信噪比和测量精度,为设计高精度的激光多普勒测速仪创造了条件。     

基于激光外差技术的高分辨率整层大气透过率测量

激光外差技术是一种高灵敏度的光谱探测技术,利用该技术研制的装置易于集成化小型化,可以进行地基或星载的地球大气或天文观测。基于激光外差光谱测量技术,结合自研的太阳跟踪仪建立了一套高分辨率整层大气透过率测量系统,系统分辨率约为0.006 cm-1。该系统利用太阳光和红外激光在非线性探测器中进行光学混频,通过对获取的混频信号进行电子学滤波和平方率探测,获得了高光谱分辨率的外差信号。采用Langley-plot定标法对测量系统进行定标,获取了仪器标定常数和对应的大气总光学厚度,实现了中红外波段整层大气透过率的实时测量。同时,将实测整层大气透过率与MODTRAN5.0软件仿真计算的结果进行对比分析,两者的一致性较好。分析表明该测量系统具有很高的分辨率并且性能稳定可靠,在大气科学、天文观测和激光大气传输等研究领域具有广阔的应用前景。     

Investigation of glass panels thickness profile by all-fiber digital heterodyne interferometry

All-fiber digital heterodyne interferometry is a laser metrology technique employing pseudo-random codes phase modulated onto an optical carrier signal. In this heterodyne interferometer system, the optical signal includes signal reflected and transmitted from the sample, respectively. Compared with the conventional heterodyne interferometry, this enhanced optical system has much higher measurement sensitivity, and can distinguish the signal which reflected from the front and the rear surface of the sample. Analysis and simulation for the digital heterodyne interferometry are presented. It takes approximately 4 s to scan the whole surface with the diameter of 300 mm. The thickness profile of the sample is obtained in the experiment. The discussion about the experiment is given finally.     

Solid state and fibre optic laser doppler velocimeters

Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) has become established as an important technique for the measurement of velocities of macroscopic objects and fluids: the dynamic range is large (～10^-6-10⁵ ms^-1) and the measurement is absolute and non-invasive. However, the size and cost of LDV has restricted its use in some areas. This paper presents two separate approaches to reduce these problems: we describe a compact LDV system incorporating a solid state laser diode and also an investigation of the feasibility of a fibre optic LDV system in which the conventional optical components are replaced by fibre optics.The experimental arrangement used for the solid state LDV system was of the Doppler difference type; i.e. a system of parallel interference fringes is focused in the measurement volume, so that a particle passing through this volume produces a scattered light signal which is intensity modulated. In its simplest form, the technique cannot determine the direction of motion of the particle, but this difficulty may be overcome by causing the fringes to ‘move’ within the measurement volume with known velocity. In the present experiments, the laser output frequency was modulated by modulating its drive current; since the path lengths of the two beams interfering in the measurement volume were unequal, fringe motion was achieved.The fibre optic LDV experiment was also of the Doppler difference type, and it was demonstrated that the necessary stabilised interference fringe system could be projected using a fibre optic system. An electronic servo was devised to compensate for the random differential thermal drifts in the fibres which would otherwise have produced unacceptable drifts in the fringe pattern.     

Laser Doppler velocimeter with variable optical frequency shift

An opto-electronic system that allows a stable accurate frequency shift, variable from 10 kHz to 50 MHz, to be introduced in a laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) has been developed. The system combines a fixed optical-frequency shift obtained using a Bragg cell with an electronic shift which results from mixing the detector signal with a variable local oscillator frequency phase locked to the Bragg cell driver. This paper discusses the advantages of the system in both a tracker and a counter based LDV.     

基于外差干涉的微振动测量技术研究

针对外差干涉的微振动测量存在稳定性低、严重受环境噪声影响等缺点,提出了对光路的改进方案。根据差分原理将其改为双光路,消除环境噪声的干扰;通过偏振分光棱镜（PBS）将椭圆偏振光变为线偏光,提高干涉信号幅值;改进频移装置(AOM),抑制频率漂移;增加光阑,滤除杂散光,提高系统信噪比。通过探测5 kHz压电陶瓷振动信号,以及2.5 MHz高频激光超声信号进行实验验证,结果表明:信号稳定且无纹波,系统分辨率为2.3 nm,信噪比提高16.7倍。两路干涉信号幅值分别为552 mV和736 mV,较传统外差干涉信号幅值提高近10倍,有利于纳米量级微振动信号的检测。     

全光纤激光多普勒测振仪空气耦合振动检测

采用外差探测方式, 建立了全光纤结构的激光多普勒测振仪,用来测量经空气传播耦合引起的散射体振动,以期感知振源振动信息。实验探索了散射体材料、固定方式和相对振源位置等对空气耦合振动的影响,得到了200~2700 Hz频率范围内6种散射体振动响应特性曲线。结果表明:通过空气耦合引起的散射体振动,在相同振源振幅下,散射体振动的振幅一般随频率升高而升高; 在材料、固定方式和相对振源位置等因素中,散射体材料对振动响应特性的影响是主要的,后两者只影响局部细节。     

Measurement of small displacement based on surface plasmon resonance heterodyne interferometry

This paper proposes an optical method for measuring small displacements using the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) heterodyne interferometry. A heterodyne light beam reflected by a mirror passes through a hemisphere glass and then enters into a surface plasmon resonance apparatus at the resonant angle. A small displacement of the mirror will introduce a phase-difference variation between p- and s-polarizations of the light emerging from the SPR apparatus. The phase-difference variation can be precisely measured with the heterodyne interferometric technique, and the associated displacement can be estimated. The feasibility of this method was verified by experiment, and the displacement measurement resolution of about 1.4 nm over a traveling range of 6 μm was achieved. Our method of measurement has the merits of both common-path interferometry and heterodyne interferometry.     

Laser heterodyne vibration measuring method

This paper introduces a heterodyne vibration measuring method: a new signal processing device with a microprocessor has been designed. The most important advantages of this method are that the vibrating amplitude and frequency of the object can be measured simultaneously, with a measuring accuracy of 1% and 0.5% respectively. Better heterodyne signals can be seen by using glass microspheres as scatterers. By using their strong backward scattering, the vibrations in non-optic axis directions can be measured. This method can be used for measurements in which the vibrating body cannot be loaded or is at a long distance.     

Temporal heterodyne shearing speckle pattern interferometry

Shearing speckle pattern interferometry is a full-field speckle interferometric technique used to determine surface displacement derivatives. In this paper, a new measurement system of real-time heterodyne shearography interferometry is presented. This system combined with heterodyne measurement, shearography interferometry and time domain signal processing technology can dynamically detect the out-of-plane displacement gradient. The principles and system arrangement are described. Using the Jones matrix, the mathematical expression of light intensity distribution passing through this system is deduced. A preliminary experiment was performed to demonstrate the performance of this new device, and simulations were conducted using the finite element method. Comparison of results shows that quantitative measurement of the displacement derivative has been achieved.     

Research on laser Doppler velocimeter for vehicle self-contained inertial navigation system

An idea of using laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) to measure the velocity for the vehicle inertial navigation system was put forward. The principle of measuring its own velocity with laser Doppler technique was elaborated and reference-beam LDV was designed. Then Doppler signal was processed by tracking filter, frequency spectrum refinement and frequency spectrum correction algorithm. The result of theory and experiment showed that the reference-beam LDV solved the problem that dual-beam LDV cannot be used for measuring when the system was out of focus. Doppler signal was tracked so that signal-to-noise ratio was improved, and the accuracy of the system was enhanced by the technology of frequency spectrum refinement and correction. The measurement mean error was less than 1.5% in velocity range of 0-30 m/s.     

Investigation on the maximum signal handling capability of fiber optic interferometric sensor based on the digital heterodyne demodulation scheme

The maximum signal handling capability (MSHC) is an important parameter for the fiber optic interferometric sensor (FOIS) system. It is restricted by the heterodyne frequency (HF) and the digital quadrature demodulation algorithm (DQDA) in the digital heterodyne demodulation scheme. In this paper we systematically investigate the MSHC of the FOIS based on the digital heterodyne demodulation scheme through comparison of the HF-determined MSHC and DQDA-determined MSHC. When discussing the DQDA-determined MSHC, two widely used methods are included, which are arctangent and differential-cross multiply (DCM). The comparison results reveal that the arctangent-determined MSHC is 12 dB larger than the DCM-determined MSHC. The HF-determined MSHC is between the two types of DQDA-determined MSHC. If the DQDA is arctangent, the MSHC of the system is the HF-determined MSHC. If the DQDA is DCM, the MSHC of the system is the DCM-determined MSHC. Experiments are carried out and the results are consistent with the theoretical analysis. The conclusion in this paper can help us to estimate the MSHC of the FOIS system based on the digital heterodyne demodulation scheme more accurately and provide a useful guideline for the design of the FOIS system with large demodulation dynamic scale.     

Measurement of acoustic particle velocities in enclosed sound field: Assessment of two Laser Doppler Velocimetry measuring systems

The performances of two Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) systems adapted for measuring the acoustic particle velocities are assessed in enclosed sound field. This assessment is performed by comparing the acoustic velocities measured by means of LDV to reference acoustic velocities estimated from sound pressure measurements. The two LDV systems are based on a single optical bench which delivers an optical signal called Doppler signal. The Doppler signal, which is frequency modulated, is analyzed by means of two signal processing systems, the BSA (Burst Spectrum Analyser from Dantec) on the one hand, and a system specifically developed for the estimation of the acoustic velocity on the other hand. Once the experimental setup has been optimized for minimizing the errors made on the reference velocities, the assessment is performed and shows that both systems can measure the acoustic velocity in enclosed field in two the frequency ranges [0-4 kHz] and [0-2 kHz] respectively for acoustic velocity amplitudes of 10 mm/s and 1 mm/s.     

激光多普勒技术在固体测量方面的运用

介绍了激光多普勒测量技术的原理和后散射型固体表面测量方式。通过声光调制器的偏频后 ,能够确定物体的运动方向。对多普勒信号进行光学外差处理并对多普勒信号进行测相 ,可以提高测量的精度。用差动微分多普勒技术进行测量 ,可以消除由固体表面特性和激光光强的波动引起的误差。     

Heterodyne detection enhanced by quantum correlation

Heterodyne detectors as phase-insensitive(PI) devices have found important applications in precision measurements such as space-based gravitational-wave(GW) observation. However, the output signal of a PI heterodyne detector is supposed to suffer from signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) degradation due to image band vacuum and imperfect quantum efficiency. Here, we show that the SNR degradation can be overcome when the image band vacuum is quantum correlated with the input signal.We calculate the noise figure of the detector and prove the feasibility of heterodyne detection with enhanced noise performance through quantum correlation. This work should be of great interest to ongoing space-borne GW signal searching experiments.     

多光束激光外差高精度测量玻璃厚度的方法

利用基于激光外差测量技术和激光多普勒技术的非接触式多光束激光外差测量方法,得到了光电探测器输出电流的谐波表达式.讨论了该测量方法用于玻璃厚度超精密测量的可行性及理论依据,并利用Matlab软件对不同情况进行了仿真实验.结果表明：该方法在不同入射角时测量平板玻璃厚度最大的误差为0.3%,明显比其他测量方法精度高. 关键词： 外差探测 多光束激光外差 激光多普勒技术 非接触式测量     

The detection of atmospheric turbulence using two ultrasonic light modulators and heterodyne signal processing

The use of double diffraction of coherent light, passing through a pair of ultrasonic light modulators (ULM) with slightly different frequencies, has been studied for optical heterodyne detection processing. A beat signal can be generated with a difference or sum sound frequency between the two ULM's when a pair of diffracted light beams of first order, produced after passage through the two ULM's are photomixed with each other. This system has the merit that it requires no optical components except the two ULM's. It is also convenient for heterodyning techniques that the alignment of the two light beams to be photomixed is not critical. As an application of this system the phase fluctuations of the beat caused by atmospheric turbulence have been processed electronically to obtain its statistical properties.