A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor System
A photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry (PC-OTDR) based optical fiber temperature sensor system is proposed and demonstrated experimentally in this work. In the system, a high speed photon-counting module is developed for fast measurement and a cascade SMF (single- mode fiber)-COF (capil...
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| author | Shijie Deng Hao Zhang Shitai Yang Ming Chen Yu Cheng Hongchang Deng Houquan Liu Libo Yuan Chuanxin Teng |
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| description | A photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry (PC-OTDR) based optical fiber temperature sensor system is proposed and demonstrated experimentally in this work. In the system, a high speed photon-counting module is developed for fast measurement and a cascade SMF (single- mode fiber)-COF (capillary optical fiber)-SMF fiber structure is designed for the temperature sensing. Thanks to the newly developed active quench and reset integrated circuits, the photon-counting module achieves a maximum counting rate of nearly 35 Mcounts/s that allows the PC-OTDR based optical fiber sensor system achieving the OTDR trace of a 20 m fiber-under-test (FUT) within 0.2 ms and a 6 km FUT within 20 s. The spatial resolution measured is about 3.8 cm and 60 cm for the FUT of 20 m and 6 km respectively. To test the system's optical sensing usefulness, a SMF-COF-SMF is developed and connected to the FUT of the system to form a temperature sensor. The COF is filled by UV glue whose refractive index is sensitive to the temperature. Experimental results show that this system is capable of measuring the temperature in the range from 20 °C (room temperature) to 220 °C, which can also locate the sensing position accurately. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-adf0f80a672947ffb23a9500051d79532022-12-22T01:39:12ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552022-01-011441710.1109/JPHOT.2022.31926829834071A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor SystemShijie Deng0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5468-8504Hao Zhang1Shitai Yang2Ming Chen3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-5877Yu Cheng4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9052-119XHongchang Deng5Houquan Liu6https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5130-7326Libo Yuan7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2425-4553Chuanxin Teng8https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4842-7540Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaKey Lab of In-Fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry Education of China, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaGuangxi Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, ChinaA photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry (PC-OTDR) based optical fiber temperature sensor system is proposed and demonstrated experimentally in this work. In the system, a high speed photon-counting module is developed for fast measurement and a cascade SMF (single- mode fiber)-COF (capillary optical fiber)-SMF fiber structure is designed for the temperature sensing. Thanks to the newly developed active quench and reset integrated circuits, the photon-counting module achieves a maximum counting rate of nearly 35 Mcounts/s that allows the PC-OTDR based optical fiber sensor system achieving the OTDR trace of a 20 m fiber-under-test (FUT) within 0.2 ms and a 6 km FUT within 20 s. The spatial resolution measured is about 3.8 cm and 60 cm for the FUT of 20 m and 6 km respectively. To test the system's optical sensing usefulness, a SMF-COF-SMF is developed and connected to the FUT of the system to form a temperature sensor. The COF is filled by UV glue whose refractive index is sensitive to the temperature. Experimental results show that this system is capable of measuring the temperature in the range from 20 °C (room temperature) to 220 °C, which can also locate the sensing position accurately.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9834071/Photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometryphoton-counting moduleoptical fiber sensortemperature measurement |
| spellingShingle | Shijie Deng Hao Zhang Shitai Yang Ming Chen Yu Cheng Hongchang Deng Houquan Liu Libo Yuan Chuanxin Teng A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor System IEEE Photonics Journal Photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry photon-counting module optical fiber sensor temperature measurement |
| title | A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor System |
| title_full | A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor System |
| title_fullStr | A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor System |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor System |
| title_short | A Photon-Counting Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry Based Optical Fiber Temperature Sensor System |
| title_sort | photon counting optical time domain reflectometry based optical fiber temperature sensor system |
| topic | Photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry photon-counting module optical fiber sensor temperature measurement |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9834071/ |
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