{"title":"A DFB fiber laser sensor system with ultra-high resolution and its noise analysis","authors":"Hao Xiao, Yuliang Liu, Jun He, Fang Li","doi":"10.1109/APOS.2008.5226313","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We describe a distributed feedback fiber laser (DFB FL) sensor system with ultra-high resolution. The sensor is made by writing distributed feedback structures into a high gain active fiber, and the system employs an unbalanced Michelson interferometer to translate laser wavelength shifts induced by weak measurands into phase shifts. A digital phase generated carrier demodulation scheme is introduced to achieve ultra-high resolution interrogation. A detailed noise analysis of the system is presented, and it is shown that the system resolution is limited by the frequency noise of the DFB FL.","PeriodicalId":154236,"journal":{"name":"2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APOS.2008.5226313","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We describe a distributed feedback fiber laser (DFB FL) sensor system with ultra-high resolution. The sensor is made by writing distributed feedback structures into a high gain active fiber, and the system employs an unbalanced Michelson interferometer to translate laser wavelength shifts induced by weak measurands into phase shifts. A digital phase generated carrier demodulation scheme is introduced to achieve ultra-high resolution interrogation. A detailed noise analysis of the system is presented, and it is shown that the system resolution is limited by the frequency noise of the DFB FL.