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Highly Stabilized Phase-Shifted Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing System for Ultrasonic Detection

  • Tsinghua University

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Abstract

A phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (PS-FBG) sensing system based on Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for ultrasonic detection. The sensing system is highly stabilized as the laser is frequency locked to the PS-FBG resonance using PDH technique. This scheme reduces the effect of laser intensity noise and enables high-sensitivity ultrasonic detection by monitoring the error signal of frequency detuning between the laser and the PS-FBG resonance. Response of the frequency-locked PS-FBG to ultrasound is done by testing the ultrasonic refection of a 0.4-mm plastic film, immersed in water. The sensor exhibits a high signal-to-noise ratio of 48 dB at 200 kHz and a noise-limited detectable strain of 8.7 pε above 10 kHz. Frequency response of PS-FBG from 100 kHz to 1 MHz was also characterized.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7024920
Pages (from-to)848-851
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume27
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Apr 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Fiber Bragg gratings
  • Fiber optics sensors
  • Non-destructive testing

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