摘要
The phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry(φ-OTDR)is a good candidate for distributed dynamic strain sensing,due to its high sensitivity and fast measurement,which has already been widely used in intrusion monitoring,geophysical exploration,etc.For the frequency scanning basedφ-OTDR,the phase change manifests itself as a shift of the intensity distribution.The correlation between the reference and measured spectra is employed for relative strain demodulation,which has imposed the continuous measurement for the absolute strain demodulation.Fortunately,the Brillouin optical time domain analysis(BOTDA)allows for the absolute strain demodulation with only one measurement.In this work,the combination of theφ-OTDR and BOTDA has been proposed and demonstrated by using the same set of frequency-scanning optical pulses,and the frequency-agile technique is also introduced for fast measurements.A 9.9 Hz vibration with a strain range of 500 nεhas been measured under two different absolute strains(296.7μεand 554.8με)by integrating the Rayleigh and Brillouin information.The sub-micro strain vibration is demonstrated by theφ-OTDR signal with a high sensitivity of 6.8 nε,while the absolute strain is measured by the BOTDA signal with an accuracy of 5.4με.The proposed sensor allows for dynamic absolute strain measurements with a high sensitivity,thus opening a door for new possibilities which are yet to be explored.
基金
This work was supported by the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project of China(2017YFF0108700)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(61975045)
The authors would like to express our gratitude to Long Wang,Chao Pang and Yabo Feng for their help in the experiment.
