Utilization of negative beat-frequencies for maximizing the update-rate of OFDR

Haniel Gabai; Yakov Botsev; Meir Hahami; Avishay Eyal

doi:10.1117/12.2184154

1 July 2015 Utilization of negative beat-frequencies for maximizing the update-rate of OFDR

Haniel Gabai, Yakov Botsev, Meir Hahami, Avishay Eyal

Proceedings Volume 9655, Fifth Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors Conference; 96553I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2184154
Event: Fifth Asia Pacific Optical Sensors Conference, 2015, Jeju, Korea, Republic of

Abstract

In traditional OFDR systems, the backscattered profile of a sensing fiber is inefficiently duplicated to the negative band of spectrum. In this work, we present a new OFDR design and algorithm that remove this redundancy and make use of negative beat frequencies. In contrary to conventional OFDR designs, it facilitates efficient use of the available system bandwidth and enables distributed sensing with the maximum allowable interrogation update-rate for a given fiber length. To enable the reconstruction of negative beat frequencies an I/Q type receiver is used. In this receiver, both the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of the backscatter field are detected. Following detection, both components are digitally combined to produce a complex backscatter signal. Accordingly, due to its asymmetric nature, the produced spectrum will not be corrupted by the appearance of negative beat-frequencies. Here, via a comprehensive computer simulation, we show that in contrast to conventional OFDR systems, I/Q OFDR can be operated at maximum interrogation update-rate for a given fiber length. In addition, we experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, the ability of I/Q OFDR to utilize negative beat-frequencies for long-range distributed sensing.

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Haniel Gabai, Yakov Botsev, Meir Hahami, and Avishay Eyal "Utilization of negative beat-frequencies for maximizing the update-rate of OFDR", Proc. SPIE 9655, Fifth Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors Conference, 96553I (1 July 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2184154

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Reflectors

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