Dynamic Range Enhanced Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry Using Dual-Loop Composite Optical Phase-Locking
Open Access
- 2 July 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Journal
- Vol. 13 (4), 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jphot.2021.3094330
Abstract
We report on a dynamic range enhanced optical frequency domain reflectometry distributed backscattering interrogator based on dual-loop composite optical phase-locked loop (OPLL). Exploiting simultaneously an acousto-optic frequency shifter based an external modulation loop and a piezo based direct modulation loop, the proposed composite OPLL allows offering a larger loop bandwidth and gain, permitting a more efficient coherence enhancement as well as sweep linearization. A high fidelity frequency sweep of ~8.2 GHz at 164 GHz/s sweep rate is generated with a peak-to-peak frequency error as low as ~120 kHz . It leads to a dynamic range enhancement of more than 3 dB for the measured power loss compared to the case when only piezo loop is applied. This corresponds to ~15 km extension for the measurement range of Rayleigh backscattering without any spatial resolution penalties. Fourier transform-limited spatial resolution has been demonstrated at a range window more than about 28 times of the intrinsic coherence length of the adopted fiber laser. The proposed method provides a straightforward optimization of the real-time sweep control and is expected to be a useful tool in industrial and commercial applications.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61805014, 61827807)
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