Enhanced bandwidth distributed acoustic sensing using a frequency multiplexed pulse train and micro-machined point reflector fiber
Enhanced bandwidth distributed acoustic sensing using a frequency multiplexed pulse train and micro-machined point reflector fiber
In this Letter, we present an enhanced bandwidth distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) that uses a frequency multiplexed interrogation system to probe a micro-machined point reflector fiber. The fiber contains a series of discrete point reflectors with reflectance as high as -48 dB, while the frequency multiplexed interrogator allows us to increase the effective pulse repetition rate by a factor of 10. Together, this enables a phase noise as low as -101 dB (re rad2/Hz) for a 2.5 km fiber with 10 m spatial resolution, corresponding to a strain noise of 0.095p ε/Hz. This scheme also enables a 10-fold increase in the sensor bandwidth without introducing noise due to interference fading. Finally, we demonstrate sensing at ranges up to 10 km using a fiber containing 1000 point reflectors, illustrating the scalability of this approach.
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Beresna, Martynas
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Lee, Timothy
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Ogden, Hannah M.
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Redding, Brandon
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1 February 2022
Beresna, Martynas
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Lee, Timothy
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Beresna, Martynas, Lee, Timothy, Ogden, Hannah M. and Redding, Brandon
(2022)
Enhanced bandwidth distributed acoustic sensing using a frequency multiplexed pulse train and micro-machined point reflector fiber.
Optics Letters, 47 (3), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.449223).
Abstract
In this Letter, we present an enhanced bandwidth distributed acoustic sensor (DAS) that uses a frequency multiplexed interrogation system to probe a micro-machined point reflector fiber. The fiber contains a series of discrete point reflectors with reflectance as high as -48 dB, while the frequency multiplexed interrogator allows us to increase the effective pulse repetition rate by a factor of 10. Together, this enables a phase noise as low as -101 dB (re rad2/Hz) for a 2.5 km fiber with 10 m spatial resolution, corresponding to a strain noise of 0.095p ε/Hz. This scheme also enables a 10-fold increase in the sensor bandwidth without introducing noise due to interference fading. Finally, we demonstrate sensing at ranges up to 10 km using a fiber containing 1000 point reflectors, illustrating the scalability of this approach.
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 December 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 January 2022
Published date: 1 February 2022
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/455911
ISSN: 0146-9592
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Martynas Beresna
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Timothy Lee
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Hannah M. Ogden
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Brandon Redding
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