Abstract
We present a distributed fiber sensor capable of discriminating between temperature and strain while performing low-noise, dynamic measurements. This was achieved by leveraging recent advances in Brillouin and Rayleigh based fiber sensors. In particular, we designed a hybrid sensor that combines a slope-assisted Brillouin optical time domain analysis system with a Rayleigh-scattering-based frequency scanning optical time domain reflectometry system. These sub-systems combine state-of-the-art sensitivity with the ability to perform both dynamic and quasi-static measurements. This enabled a hybrid system capable of temperature/strain discrimination with a quasi-static temperature resolution of 16 m°C and a strain resolution of 140 nɛ along 500 m of single mode fiber with 5 m spatial resolution. In contrast to previously reported techniques, this approach also enabled dynamic measurements with a bandwidth of 1.7 kHz and temperature (strain) noise spectral density of 0.54 m°C/√Hz (4.5 nɛ/√Hz) while temperature/strain cross-sensitivity was suppressed by at least 25 dB. This represents a dramatic improvement in measurement speed and sensitivity compared with existing techniques capable of temperature/strain discrimination in standard single mode fiber.
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