Abstract
In order to improve the real-time performance of a phase-sensitive optical-time-domain reflectometer (Φ-OTDR), a fully digital phase processing system is demonstrated. Using digital down-conversion and field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware calculation, the phase of the Rayleigh scattering light can be demodulated in real-time. Benefiting from the pipeline calculation in the FPGA, the real-time performance of this system is not affected by the interrogation rate and fiber sensing distance. Experiments show that this real-time detection system has the same vibration detection performance as an offline data process and has good stability. The dynamic strain sensing with a sensing distance of 50 km, an interrogation rate of 1kHz, and a spatial sampling interval of 1m is experimentally demonstrated. The obtained results indicate that the fully digital signal processing system can ensure the real-time detection of Φ-OTDR under the condition of long distance and high resolution.
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