Abstract

The physics principle of pulse flight positioning is the main theoretical bottleneck that restricts the spatial resolution of the existing Raman distributed optical fiber sensing scheme. Owing to the pulse width of tens of nanoseconds, the spatial resolution of the existing Raman distributed optical fiber sensing scheme with kilometer-level sensing distance is limited to the meter level, which seriously restricts the development of the optical time-domain reflection system. In this paper, a chaos laser is proposed in the context of the physical principle of the Raman scattering effect, and a novel theory of chaos Raman distributed optical fiber sensing scheme is presented. The scheme reveals the characteristics of chaos Raman scattering light excited by a chaotic signal on the sensing fiber. Further, the chaos time-domain compression demodulation mechanism between the temperature variation information and chaos correlation peak is demonstrated. Then, the position of the temperature variation signal is precisely located using the delay time of the chaos correlation peak combined with the chaos pulse flight time. Based on this novel optical sensing mechanism, an experiment with 10 cm spatial resolution and 1.4 km sensing distance was conducted, and the spatial resolution was found to be independent of the sensing distance. Within the limit of the existing spatial resolution theory, the spatial resolution of the proposed scheme is 50 times higher than that of the traditional scheme. The scheme also provides a new research direction for optical chaos and optical fiber sensing.

The first combination of chaos laser and Raman distributed optical fiber sensing breaks the physical bottleneck of spatial resolution, the optimal spatial resolution of the current kilometer-level sensing distance is achieved.

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Title
Chaos Raman distributed optical fiber sensing
Author
Wang, Chenyi 1 ; Li, Jian 2 ; Zhou, Xinxin 3 ; Cheng, Zijia 3 ; Qiao, Lijun 3 ; Xue, Xiaohui 3 ; Zhang, Mingjiang 4 

 Taiyuan University of Technology, College of Physics, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9491 9632); Taiyuan University of Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System of Ministry of Education, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9491 9632) 
 Taiyuan University of Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System of Ministry of Education, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9491 9632); Taiyuan University of Technology, College of Electrical Information and Optical Engineering, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9491 9632) 
 Taiyuan University of Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System of Ministry of Education, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9491 9632) 
 Taiyuan University of Technology, College of Physics, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9491 9632); Taiyuan University of Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System of Ministry of Education, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9491 9632); Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, China (GRID:grid.440656.5) 
Pages
213
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
e-ISSN
20477538
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2859394595
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.