Real-time wide-area environment sensing is crucial for accessing open-world information streams from nature and human society.As a transformative technique distinct from electrical sensors,distributed optical fiber se...Real-time wide-area environment sensing is crucial for accessing open-world information streams from nature and human society.As a transformative technique distinct from electrical sensors,distributed optical fiber sensing especially for Brillouin scattering-based paradigm has shown superior bandwidth,power,and sensing range.Still,it suffers from insufficient resolution and timeliness to characterize remote dynamic events.Here we develop TABS—a transient acoustic wave-based Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensor,supporting long-range highspatiotemporal-resolution distributed sensing.By designing a functionally synergistic sensor architecture,TABS elaborately leverages wideband and time-weighted energy transformation properties of a transient acousto-optic interaction to breaking through Brillouin-energy-utilization-efficiency bottleneck,enabling enhancements in overall sensing performance.In the experiment,TABS has achieved a 37-cm spatial resolution over a 50-km range with 1 to 2 orders of magnitude improvement in temporal resolution compared to prevailing Brillouin sensing approaches.For the first time,TABS is explored for state imaging of evacuated-tube maglev transportation system as an exemplary application,showcasing its feasibility and flexibility for potential open-world applications and large-scale intelligent perception.展开更多
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under contracts Nos.U23A20376,62431024,61735015,62405153,62205176.
文摘Real-time wide-area environment sensing is crucial for accessing open-world information streams from nature and human society.As a transformative technique distinct from electrical sensors,distributed optical fiber sensing especially for Brillouin scattering-based paradigm has shown superior bandwidth,power,and sensing range.Still,it suffers from insufficient resolution and timeliness to characterize remote dynamic events.Here we develop TABS—a transient acoustic wave-based Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensor,supporting long-range highspatiotemporal-resolution distributed sensing.By designing a functionally synergistic sensor architecture,TABS elaborately leverages wideband and time-weighted energy transformation properties of a transient acousto-optic interaction to breaking through Brillouin-energy-utilization-efficiency bottleneck,enabling enhancements in overall sensing performance.In the experiment,TABS has achieved a 37-cm spatial resolution over a 50-km range with 1 to 2 orders of magnitude improvement in temporal resolution compared to prevailing Brillouin sensing approaches.For the first time,TABS is explored for state imaging of evacuated-tube maglev transportation system as an exemplary application,showcasing its feasibility and flexibility for potential open-world applications and large-scale intelligent perception.
