基于光相干外差检测的布里渊散射DOFS的研究

对布里渊散射分布式光纤传感器(DOFS)检测原理进行了分析, 针对布里渊散射光信号的特点, 应用光相干和外差技术来检测布里渊散射光信号. 具体采用微波电光调制产生频率可调的参考光, 和布里渊散射光进行相干检测, 根据布里渊频移特性取出布里渊散射光信号, 从而得到分布式传感信号. 分别实现了25 km光纤的分布式温度和应变传感, 达到3℃的温度分辨率、100 με的应变分辨率和10 m的空间分辨率.     

Heterodyne angular interferometer using a square prism

An interferometer composed of a dual-frequency laser, sensing assembly, and decoding system is proposed for angular displacement determinations. The laser is a heterodyne light source. The sensing assembly generates an interference signal by the use of a square prism, and the decoding system extracts the phase difference of the interference signal. The theory, which reveals that the phase difference has a relation with the angular displacement of the square prism, of the interferometer is described. A setup constructed to realize the interferometer and the results of using this setup are then demonstrated and presented.     

微波电光调制的布里渊散射分布式光纤传感技术

在分析布里渊散射分布式光纤传感器检测原理的基础上,针对布里渊散射光信号比较微弱且和瑞利散射光之间存在频移的特点,采用微波电光调制产生频率可调的参考光,和后向布里渊散射光进行相干检测,得到放大的布里渊散射光信号,再用高速模拟数字转换和存储叠加进行时序信号处理,最后得到分布式传感信号。给出了各部分实验过程和结果,得出与理论分析一致的布里渊散射光频谱和光强随温度升高而产生变化。实现了25km的分布式温度传感,初步实验结果证明了方案的可行性。     

希尔伯特变换处理的布里渊散射DOFS的研究

光时域反射结构的布里渊散射分布式光纤传感器所检测的自发布里渊散射光信号非常微弱,且频带宽度在几十兆赫以上,难以应用普通相干解调方法,提出了基于希尔伯特变换的光相干检测方法,具体采用微波电光调制产生频移参考光和自发布里渊散射光进行相干检测得到光电信号,再应用基于希尔伯特变换的数字信号处理技术对光电信号进行幅度解调,得到了信噪比改善的布里渊散射光谱,从而有利于提高传感器的检测性能,     

Application of the Raman heterodyne technique for the detection of EPR and ENDOR

Raman heterodyne detection is a coherent optical-RF double resonance technique where the optical and RF fields induce coherence within a three level system and a resultant Raman field is measured using heterodyne detection. This approach has been used previously to detect NMR and more recently EPR. In this paper the parameters that affect the amplitude and signal to noise ratio of the Raman heterodyne signals are considered. The power levels in relation to the oscillator strength and dephasing times, the amplitude and spectrum of the laser frequency jitter in relation to the optical homogeneous linewidths and holeburning rates, and the sample properties such as absorption strength and optical quality, are all factors that affect the Raman signal. The presentation is focused on the Raman heterodyne detected EPR of the nitrogen-vacancy pair centre in diamond making comparisons with Raman heterodyne detected NMR signals obtained for rare earth ion systems. RF-RF double resonance studies, RF holeburning and ENDOR, which give information about the hyperfine levels are also reported for the nitrogen-vacancy centre. The resonance frequencies are in agreement with those predicted from the spin Hamiltonian. The factors affecting the lineshapes and relative intensities of the double resonance signals are discussed.     

逆合成孔径成像激光雷达数据采样技术

逆合成孔径成像激光雷达能够实现对运动目标的高分辨实时成像,但激光信号的极大带宽和目标回波信号的微弱性给雷达回波数据的接收和处理带来了较大困难.针对这一问题,提出了基于光外差探测手段和压缩感知理论相结合的信号采样方法,首先通过光外差探测降低回波信号的有效带宽,再结合压缩感知理论实现对信号的稀疏化采样和重构.仿真结果证明了运用本文所提出的采样方法,在使用远低于奈奎斯特定理所规定的采样率时,仍然能够实现对目标的高质量成像.     

Heterodyne grating-generated scan correlation interferometry for reflectometry and signal-processing applications

A novel grating-generated scan correlation interferometry approach using a heterodyne technique for real-time signal processing is demonstrated. The characterization of reflections from a sample and detection of a femtosecond four-pulse train are presented as applications of the method.     

一种基于外差探测的光纤Bragg光栅温度传感器

提出了一种基于光纤Bragg光栅的温度传感器，阐述了光纤Bragg光栅的温度传感机理，用2个相同的光纤Bragg光栅构成折叠式Mach Zehnder(M Z)干涉仪，其中一个光栅作为参考臂，另一个作为传感臂：采用外差探测技术来测量外界的温度物理量。当温度发生变化，Bragg光栅的波长也随之改变。外差探测用来探测传感臂和参考臂由于温度变化引起的输出信号的频率差异。对其动态测量范围和灵敏度也进行了分析。     

Heterodyne detection for Fiber Bragg Grating sensors

In this paper, we present a Fiber-Bragg-Grating-based temperature sensor. The technique employs heterodyne detection using two Fiber Bragg Gratings. One of the gratings is used as a reference (local oscillator) and the second as a sensing arm. This sensor uses a Folded Mach-Zehnder interferometer. As the temperature changes, the Bragg wavelength of the FBG shifts. The heterodyne detection is used to detect the frequency difference between the reference and sensing signals that is caused by the temperature change. The dynamic range and sensitivity of the sensor were analyzed and presented.     

Multiband Spectrum Sensing Based on the Sample Entropy

Cognitive radios represent a real alternative to the scarcity of the radio spectrum. One of the primary tasks of these radios is the detection of possible gaps in a given bandwidth used by licensed users (called also primary users). This task, called spectrum sensing, requires high precision in determining these gaps, maximizing the probability of detection. The design of spectrum sensing algorithms also requires innovative hardware and software solutions for real-time implementations. In this work, a technique to determine possible primary users’ transmissions in a wide frequency interval (multiband spectrum sensing) from the perspective of cognitive radios is presented. The proposal is implemented in a real wireless communications environment using low-cost hardware considering the sample entropy as a decision rule. To validate its feasibility for real-time implementation, a simulated scenario was first tested. Simulation and real-time implementations results were compared with the Higuchi fractal dimension as a decision rule. The encouraging results show that sample entropy correctly detects noise or a possible primary user transmission, with a probability of success around 0.99, and the number of samples with errors at the start and end of frequency edges of transmissions is, on average, only 12 samples.     

Multi-functional fibre-optic microwave links

The multi-functionality of microwave links based on remote heterodyne detection of signals from a dual-frequency laser transmitter is discussed and experimentally demonstrated in this paper. Typically, direct detection in conjunction with optical intensity modulation is used to implement fibre-optic microwave links. The resulting links are inherently transparent and mainly used for signal transmission. As opposed to direct detection links, remote heterodyne detection links can directly perform functionalities such as modulation, frequency conversion, and transparent signal recovery in addition to signal transmission. All three functionalities are presented and experimentally demonstrated with a remote heterodyne detection link based on a dual-frequency laser transmitter with two offset phase locked semiconductor lasers. In the modulating link a 1Gbit/s baseband signal is QPSK modulated onto a 9GHz RF carrier. The frequency converting link demonstrates up-conversion of a 100Mbit/s PSK signal from a 2GHz carrier to a 9GHz carrier with penalty-free transmission over 25km of optical fibre. Finally, the transparent signal recovering link transmits a standard FM video 7.6GHz radio-link signal over 25km of optical fibre without measurable distortion.     

Frequency drift and instantaneous linewidth broadening of phase-section tuned SG-DBR laser

We experimentally investigate the spectral dynamics of a phase-section tuned sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG-DBR) laser by using optical heterodyne method. The measured time-resolved spectra of the beat signal illustrate that the beat signal suffers from both frequency drift and instantaneous spectrum broadening, which indicates that the wavelengths of the lightwaves experience drift and jitter. We study the variation of frequency drift and instantaneous linewidth broadening with applied voltages. It is helpful in selection of optimum operating conditions and design of experimental setup. Experimental results demonstrate that the pulse-waveform can be used to reduce the frequency drift by shorting the beating time.     

Highly sensitive single-beam heterodyne coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman-scattering (CARS) microspectroscopy achieves a complete CARS scheme with a femtosecond laser. Here, we introduce heterodyne detection in a simple experimental extension: the optical fields driving the CARS process and the local oscillator used for heterodyning are derived from a single beam of ultrashort laser pulses by pulse shaping. The heterodyne signal is amplified by more than 3 orders of magnitude and is linearly dependent on the concentration of Raman scatterers. This dramatically increases the sensitivity of chemically selective detection at microscopic resolution while maintaining the simplicity of the single-beam setup.     

Secure collaborative cognitive radio based on chaotic modulation and compressive sensing

Cognitive radio (CR) is a wireless technology that is used to overcome the spectrum scarcity problem. CR includes several stages, spectrum sensing is the first stage in the CR cycle. Traditional spectrum sensing (SS) techniques have many challenges in the wideband spectrum. CR security is an important problem, since when an attacker from outside the network access the sensing information this produces an increase in sensing time and reduces the opportunities for exploiting vacant band. Compressive sensing (CS) is proposed to capture all the wideband spectrum at the same time to solve the challenges and improve the performance in the traditional techniques and then one of the traditional SS techniques are applied to the reconstructed signal for detection purpose. The sensing matrix is the core of CS must be designed in a way that produces a low reconstruction error with high compression. There are many types of sensing matrices, the chaotic matrix is the best type in terms of security, memory storage, and system performance. Few works in the literature use the chaotic matrix in CS based CR and these works have many challenges: they used sample distance in the chaotic map to generate a chaotic sequence which consumes high resources, they did not take into consideration the security in reporting channel, and they did not measure their works using real primary user (PU) signal of a practical application under fading channel and low SNR values. In this paper, we propose a chaotic CS based collaborative scenario to solve all challenges that have been presented. We proposed a chaotic matrix based on the Henon map and use the differential chaotic shift keying (DCSK) modulation to transmit the measurement vector through the reporting channel to increase the security and improve the performance under fading channel. The simulation results are tested based on a recorded real-TV signal as PU and Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit (CoSaMP) recovery algorithm under AWGN and TDL-C fading channels in collaborative and non-collaborative scenarios. The performance of the proposed system has been measured using recovery error, mean square error (MSE), derived probability of detection (Pdrec), and sensitivity to initial values. To measure the improvement introduced by the proposed system, it is evaluated in comparison with selected chaotic and random matrices. The results show that the proposed system provides low recovery error, MSE, with high Pdrec, security, and compression under SNR equal to −30 dB in AWGN and TDL-C fading channels as compared to other matrices in the literature.     

空间外差光谱自适应基线校正研究

空间外差光谱具有较高的信噪比与光谱分辨率,在大气微量气体遥感领域得到重要应用,实现基线的自适应校正是光谱预处理的重要环节。基于光谱的特点,分别采用阈值拟合法和改进的经验模态法对实测近红外水汽空间外差光谱进行基线校正。结果表明,两种方法均能实现光谱基线的自动扣除;以光谱扭曲程度及光谱相似度对两种方法的校正效果进行定量评价,阈值拟合法校正后的光谱扭曲程度及光谱相似度为0.761和0.955,改进经验模态法的结果分别为0.717和0.954,说明改进经验模态法略优。在校正方法的耗时上,改进经验模态法以其特有的算法优势仅需较少的迭代次数就能获得最终的基线光谱,完成校正,耗时不足阈值拟合法的十分之一,效率更高。     

光纤激光器自混合干涉效应研究

针对光纤激光器自混合干涉传感应用,研究了光纤激光器自混合干涉特性,运用四镜法布里-珀罗腔模型对掺铒线形腔光纤激光器自混合干涉效应进行了理论分析,对不同反馈水平下的自混合干涉信号进行了数值模拟,获得了光反馈条件下光纤激光器输出特性.外腔长度的改变会调制激光器的输出强度,外腔长度变化半个波长,对应一个干涉条纹,弱反馈条件下,由反馈引起的激光器的频率变化可以忽略.设计了基于光纤激光器的自混合干涉实验,实验结果和理论分析相符合.此研究结果为进一步开展光纤激光器的自混合干涉传感应用研究奠定了理论与实验基础.     

Acoustic power measurement using an optical heterodyne method

An optical heterodyne method is presented for measuring the Raman-Nath parameter of ultrasound. A light beam passes through a phase grating induced by ultrasound and then is recombined with another beam of light at a shifted frequency. The interference distribution of the two light beams is measured by a photodetector placed in the Fresnel region. The Raman-Nath parameter is determined from the amplitudes of frequency components in the beat signal and is independent of observation position. A theoretical analysis is given which includes pulsed ultrasound. Acoustic power determined using the technique is shown to agree fairly well with the radiation force method. Acoustic fields from a linear array transducer are also investigated. A problem involved in focused ultrasound is discussed.     

Laser Doppler vibrometer for real-time speech-signal acquirement

Laser Doppler vibrometer （LDV） has a potential application prospect in remote sensing. Based on the correlation theories of heterodyne detection, a LDV system with a configuration of all fiber and heterodyne techniques is developed to detect the sound signal through the vibration of glass. Experimental results show that the LDV system has an ability to acquire the real-time speech signal 25 m away through glass. While, the system signal-to-noise ratio （SNR） value decreases with the increase of the glass thickness and the detection distance.     

Analysis of the tuning and operation of reflection resonator EPR spectrometers

This paper investigates basic characteristics of the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signal obtained from spectrometers employing reflection resonators. General equations are presented which reveal the phase and amplitude dependence on instrumental parameters of both components of the continuous wave (CW) EPR signal (absorption and dispersion). New phase vector diagrams derived from these general equations are presented for the analysis of the EPR response. The dependence of the phase and absolute value of the CW EPR signal on the local oscillator (LO) phase and on resonator offset and coupling is presented and analyzed. The EPR spectrometer tuning procedures for both balanced and unbalanced heterodyne receivers are analyzed in detail using the new phase diagrams. Extraneous signals at the RF input of the microwave receiver (resulting from circulator leakage and reflections in the resonator transmission line) have been taken into account and analyzed. It is shown that a final tuning condition that corresponds to an extremum of the receiver output as a function of the resonator frequency is necessary and sufficient for the acquisition of pure absorption signal. This condition is universal: it applies to all spectrometer configurations in all frequency ranges. High Frequency EPR spectrometer (130 GHz) data are used to generate experimental phase diagrams that illustrate the theoretical concepts presented in the paper. Conditions are presented under which the absorption signal can be measured with complete suppression of the dispersion, independent of the mutual frequency offset between the microwave source and the EPR sample resonator. Equations describing the approximate relationship between changes of the resonator properties (Q-factor and frequency) and paramagnetic susceptibility are derived and analyzed.     

An improved arctangent algorithm based on phase-locked loop for heterodyne detection system

We present an ameliorated arctangent algorithm based on phase-locked loop for digital Doppler signal processing,utilized within the heterodyne detection system. We define the error gain factor given by the approximation of Taylor expansion by means of a comparison of the measured values and true values. Exact expressions are derived for the amplitude error of two in-phase quadrature signals and the frequency error of the acousto-optic modulator. Numerical simulation results and experimental results make it clear that the dynamic instability of the intermediate frequency signals leads to cumulative errors, which will spiral upward. An improved arctangent algorithm for the heterodyne detection is proposed to eliminate the cumulative errors and harmonic components. Depending on the narrow-band filter, our experiments were performed to realize the detectable displacement of 20 nm at a detection distance of 20 m. The aim of this paper is the demonstration of the optimized arctangent algorithm as a powerful approach to the demodulation algorithm, which will advance the signal-to-noise ratio and measurement accuracy of the heterodyne detection system.