Performance analysis of a distributed optical fiber vibration sensor based on a sagnac interferometer

In this work, measuring capabilities of a Sagnac Interferometer-based Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor (DOFS) system are demonstrated by comparing its results to a conventional amplitude-based Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) system. Through a set of three different experiments, it was demonstrate...

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Autores: Ozcariz Celaya, Aritz, Heim Weber, Guilherme, Gomes, Danilo Fernandes, Costa, Igor Brutkowski Vieira da, Galvão, José Rodolfo, Martins, Victor Matheus, Pipa, Daniel R., Silva, Marco J. da, Cardozo da Silva, Jean Carlos, Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos, Martelli, Cicero
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/45942
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/45942
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:C-OTDR
Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing
Sagnac Interferometer
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Sumario:In this work, measuring capabilities of a Sagnac Interferometer-based Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor (DOFS) system are demonstrated by comparing its results to a conventional amplitude-based Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) system. Through a set of three different experiments, it was demonstrated that both sensing systems can detect and locate dynamical deformation along the fiber, in addition to determining its frequency components. The coherent amplitude-based DAS presented a lower background noise. In contrast, even though the Sagnac interferometry-based system presented low-frequency noise in the measurements, it is less susceptible to harmonic distortion for higher amplitude deformations since its sensing principles rely on the measurement of the accumulated phase rather than the amplitude of the backscattered signal purely. Accordingly, the Sagnac interferometry-based system arises as a promising and rather accessible topology for a DOFS implementation.