Title
Ultra-Long-Distance Hybrid BOTDA/Ф-OTDR.
Abstract
In the distributed optical fiber sensing (DOFS) domain, simultaneous measurement of vibration and temperature/strain based on Rayleigh scattering and Brillouin scattering in fiber could have wide applications. However, there are certain challenges for the case of ultra-long sensing range, including the interplay of different scattering mechanisms, the interaction of two types of sensing signals, and the competition of pump power. In this paper, a hybrid DOFS system, which can simultaneously measure temperature/strain and vibration over 150 km, is elaborately designed via integrating the Brillouin optical time-domain analyzer (BOTDA) and phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (phi-OTDR). Distributed Raman and Brillouin amplifications, frequency division multiplexing (FDM), wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), and time division multiplexing (TDM) are delicately fused to accommodate ultra-long-distance BOTDA and phi-OTDR. Consequently, the sensing range of the hybrid system is 150.62 km, and the spatial resolution of BOTDA and phi-OTDR are 9 m and 30 m, respectively. The measurement uncertainty of the BOTDA is +/- 0.82 MHz. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that such hybrid DOFS is realized with a hundred-kilometer length scale.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18040976
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
fiber optics sensors,optical time domain reflectometry,Rayleigh scattering,stimulated Brillouin scattering,optical amplifiers
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4.0
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Fu1141.15
Zinan Wang221.84
Richeng Zhu300.68
Naitian Xue400.34
Jialin Jiang511.83
Chongyu Lu601.01
Bin Zhang76040.23
Le Yang810613.26
David Atubga900.34
Y. Rao1046.49