Background technology
Current distributed fiberoptic sensor mainly contains two classes: a class is the Raman fiber sensor, and another kind of is the Brillouin light fiber sensor.The Raman fiber sensor is owing to only possessing temperature measurement function, and application is subject to certain restrictions; And the Brillouin light fiber sensor has been obtained development fast because can measure and be studied widely temperature and strain parameter simultaneously.The Brillouin light fiber sensor by each position of detection fiber dorsad spontaneous the or frequency shift amount relative incident light of stimulated Brillouin scattering light realize the measurement of distributed sensor to temperature and strain, its advantage is that distance sensing is long, spatial resolution is high.But because the Brillouin shift amount is simultaneously responsive to temperature and strain two physical quantitys, and with the two linear dependence, therefore there is in actual applications temperature strain cross sensitivity problem, be difficult to isolate the variable quantity that temperature and strain cause separately from the Brillouin shift amount finally obtained, seriously hindered the engineering of sensors with auxiliary electrode were and promoted.Solving at present the common technology adopted of temperature strain cross sensitivity problem has following several:
1, two parametric methods of scattered light intensity and frequency displacement (J.Smith et al., " Simultaneous distributed strain andtemperature measurement; " Appl.Opt, 38:5372-5377,1999), these class methods are by measure backscattering light intensity and frequency shift amount simultaneously, simultaneous equations solve temperature and strain variation amount, but the Restriction of the Measuring of Brillouin light intensity the detection range of sensor, and light intensity is vulnerable to external disturbance, the impact of the problems such as light source output power shake and polarization state drift.
2, Landau-Placzek ratio method (P.C.Wait and T.P.Newson, " Landau-Placzek ratioapplied todistributed fibre sensing, " Optics Communications, 122 (4-6): 141-146, 1996), these class methods are measured the Brillouin scattering light intensity and to the insensitive Rayleigh scattering light intensity of strain simultaneously, extract temperature variation by calculating the two ratio (Landau-Placzek ratio), but the Restriction of the Measuring of Rayleigh scattering light detection length and the spatial resolution of sensor, the simultaneity factor complexity significantly improves.
3, special fiber method (X.Bao, Q.Yu and L.Chen, " Simultaneous strain and temperaturemeasurements with polarization-maintaining fibers and their error analysis by use ofadistributed Brillouin loss system " Optics letters 29 (12): 1342-1344, 2004), these class methods adopt polarization maintaining optical fibre, photonic crystal fiber, the special fibers such as large effective area fiber are distinguished temperature strain two physical quantitys, but because special fiber is mostly expensive, therefore for long distance applications high cost.
For from solving in essence temperature and strain cross sensitivity problem, other physical influence method of associating has been proposed, as the effect of associating Raman scattering and Brillouin scattering both at home and abroad.External paper Proc.SPIE, the mode that a kind of Raman scattering combines with Brillouin scattering of proposing 2004 " Simultaneousdistributed measurements of temperature and strain using spontaneous raman andBrillouin scattering " realizes that temperature and strain measure simultaneously, but in its system architecture, Raman scattering sensor and Brillouin scattering sensor are used same light source, can't meet the requirement of Raman sensor and Brillouin sensing device, the data precision recorded is low simultaneously.
In May, 2009, the Chinese invention patent instructions of CN200710156868.0 of Granted publication on the 27th disclosed a kind of " very-long-range distributed fiber Raman and Brillouin's photon sensor ", proposed distributed optical fiber Raman photons temperature sensors, the mode that distribution type fiber-optic Brillouin photon strain transducer and distributed fiber Raman fiber amplifier merge, realize that temperature and strain measure simultaneously, but the light source of its Brillouin sensing device and the light source of Raman sensor have adopted the mode of common optical fiber coupling mechanism, increased the loss of luminous power, and the light source of its Brillouin sensing device has adopted exocoel narrow-band impulse fiber laser, pulsed light has difficulties when relevant the detection.
In May, 2009, the Chinese invention patent instructions of CN200710175868.5 of Granted publication on the 20th disclosed a kind of " optical fiber distributed temperature and stress sensing device ", proposed fiber raman scattering as temperature information, Brillouin scattering as strain information distributed sensing temperature and strain simultaneously, provided the calibration formula of temperature and strain, but its measuring optical fiber is polarization maintaining optical fibre, limited the range of application of sensor.
In sum, can effectively solve temperature and strain cross sensitivity problem in conjunction with Raman scattering and Brillouin scattering effect, but existing combination is mainly common light source, adopt special fiber or use fiber coupler, like this or the temperature recorded and strain parameter precision inadequate, perhaps cost is high, range of application is narrow, and existing associated methods is all the Brillouin light time domain reflection sense device (BOTDR) for single-ended measurement, can not be for the Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensor (BOTDA) of double-end measurement mode, due to Brillouin light time domain reflection sense device (BOTDR) measurement is very faint spontaneous brillouin scattering light, and Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensor (BOTDA) measurement is stronger stimulated Brillouin scattering light, therefore BOTDA to the measuring accuracy of temperature and strain far above BOTDR, and measurement range is larger.
Summary of the invention
Technical matters to be solved by this invention is to provide the distributed fiberoptic sensor of a kind of applicable Brillouin optical time domain analysis sensor (BOTDA), utilize this sensor can solve temperature and strain cross sensitivity problem, realize that temperature and strain parameter measure simultaneously.
The present invention solves the problems of the technologies described above adopted technical scheme: a kind of distribution type fiber-optic temperature and strain transducer, comprise the Brillouin light time domain analyzer module, the detection optical fiber module, the Raman fiber temperature sensor module, the first optical switch module, the second optical switch module and the 3rd optical switch module, described the first optical switch module and described the 3rd optical switch module are respectively arranged with two light signal input ports and a light signal output end mouth, described the second optical switch module is provided with a light signal input port and two light signal output end mouths, described Brillouin light time domain analyzer module is provided with two output ports, an output port of described Brillouin light time domain analyzer module is connected with a light signal input port of described the first optical switch module, another output port of described Brillouin light time domain analyzer module is connected with a light signal input port of described the 3rd optical switch module, described Raman fiber temperature sensor module is connected with the light signal input port of described the second optical switch module, two light signal output end mouths of described the second optical switch module are connected with the vacant light signal input port on described the 3rd optical switch module with described the first optical switch module respectively, the light signal output end mouth of described the first optical switch module is connected with the input end of described detection optical fiber module, the light signal output end mouth of described the 3rd optical switch module is connected with the output terminal of described detection optical fiber module.
The Brillouin light fiber sensor that described Brillouin light time domain analyzer module is made for utilizing the stimulated Brillouin scattering effect.
Described Raman fiber temperature sensor module is for measuring the raman type optical fiber temperature measuring sensor of single-mode fiber.
Described the first optical switch module, the second optical switch module and the 3rd optical switch module are 1 * 2 photoswitch.
Described detection optical fiber module is single-mode fiber.
Described detection optical fiber module is comprised of multifiber cable and optical fibre welded module.
A kind of distribution type fiber-optic temperature and strain transducer are measured the method for temperature and strain, it is characterized in that it comprises the following steps:
The step of a, measurement temperature:
A-1, control the first optical switch module and the 3rd optical switch module, two output terminals of Brillouin light time domain analyzer module and detection optical fiber module are disconnected, two output terminals of the second optical switch module are communicated with the detection optical fiber module;
A-2, control the second optical switch module, the Raman fiber temperature measurement signal is input in the detection optical fiber module through the first optical switch module forward, obtain the temperature information distributed along the detection optical fiber forward;
A-3, control the second optical switch module, the Raman fiber temperature measurement signal oppositely is input in the detection optical fiber module through the 3rd optical switch module, obtain the temperature information oppositely distributed along detection optical fiber;
By the temperature that obtains in step a-2 or by the temperature that obtains in step a-3, with distance, oppositely or using the temperature of step a-2 and step a-3 with distance, the temperature after oppositely is averaged as the temperature measurement result T along the distribution of detection optical fiber forward a-4
r(L) the fiber-optic probe distance that, L is the detection optical fiber module;
The step of b, monitor strain:
B-1, control the first optical switch module and the 3rd optical switch module, Raman fiber temperature sensor module and detection optical fiber module are disconnected, the two ends of Brillouin light time domain analyzer module and detection optical fiber module two ends are communicated with, and detect and obtain the frequency shift amount Δ v distributed along the detection optical fiber forward
b(L) the fiber-optic probe distance that, L is the detection optical fiber module;
B-2, according to the temperature measurement result T that utilizes the Raman fiber temperature sensor to obtain in step a
rand the frequency shift amount Δ v obtained in step (1) (L)
b(L), calculate the strain that distributes along detection optical fiber forward ε (L) as a result:
C in formula
t, C
εrespectively temperature and the coefficient of strain of Brillouin shift.
Compared with prior art, the invention has the advantages that by the switching controls of three optical switch modules, make Raman fiber temperature sensor module and the Brillouin light time domain analyzer module of setting relatively independent to the measurement maintenance of temperature and strain, utilize the temperature measurement result of Raman fiber temperature sensor module as benchmark, from having solved in essence Brillouin optical time domain analysis module temperature and strain cross sensitivity problem; Raman fiber temperature sensor module output signal can enter respectively the two ends of detection optical fiber by the switching of three optical switch modules in addition, both can realize the single-ended measurement of fiber optic temperature, also can realize the fiber optic temperature double-end measurement.The double-end measurement mode has the insensitive advantage of fibre loss, particularly when remote optical fiber temperature-measurement, double-end measurement has overcome the weakness of tail end low precision when traditional Raman fiber temperature sensor is single-ended to be measured, effectively guaranteed temperature accuracy when remote fiber-optic probe, increase the length of optical fiber measurement, expanded measurement range; Due to the application of optical switch module, reduce the on-off times of laser instrument in Raman fiber temperature sensor module and Brillouin light time domain analyzer module in addition, extended the serviceable life of Fibre Optical Sensor.
Embodiment
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, a kind of distribution type fiber-optic temperature and strain transducer, comprise Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1, Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2, the first optical switch module 3, the second optical switch module 4, the 3rd optical switch module 5 and detection optical fiber module 6, Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is provided with output port 11 and output port 12, the first optical switch module 3 is provided with light signal input port 31, light signal input port 32 and light signal output end mouth 33, the second optical switch module 4 is provided with light signal input port 41, light signal output end mouth 42 and light signal output end mouth 43, the 3rd optical switch module 5 is provided with light signal input port 51, light signal input port 52 and light signal output end mouth 53, an output port 11 of Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is connected with the light signal input port 31 of the first optical switch module 3, another output port 12 of Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is connected with the light signal input port 52 of the 3rd optical switch module 5, Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 is connected with the light signal input port 41 of the second optical switch module 4, the light signal output end mouth 42 of the second optical switch module 4 is connected with the vacant light signal input port 32 on the first optical switch module 3, the light signal output end mouth 43 of the second optical switch module 4 is connected with the vacant light signal input port 51 on the 3rd optical switch module 5, the light signal output end mouth 33 of the first optical switch module 3 is connected with the input end of detection optical fiber module 6, the light signal output end mouth 53 of the 3rd optical switch module 5 is connected with the output terminal of detection optical fiber module 6.
Embodiment mono-: as shown in Figure 1, the Brillouin light fiber sensor that Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is made for utilizing the stimulated Brillouin scattering effect, Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 is for measuring the raman type optical fiber temperature measuring sensor of single-mode fiber, the first optical switch module 3, the second optical switch module 4 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 are 1 * 2 photoswitch, detection optical fiber module 6 is single-mode fiber, and the two ends of single-mode fiber are directly as the input/output terminal of detection optical fiber module.
At first adopt Raman fiber temperature sensor measurement fiber optic temperature, now the first optical switch module 3 is set to light signal input port 32 to light signal output end mouth 33 paths, and light signal input port 31 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 33; The 3rd optical switch module 5 is set to light signal input port 51 to light signal output end mouth 53 paths, and light signal input port 52 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 53.Now, the first optical switch module 3 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 disconnect Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 and detection optical fiber module 6, and Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 is connected with detection optical fiber module 6 by three optical switch modules.The second optical switch module 4 is set to light signal input port 41 to light signal output end mouth 42 paths, and light signal input port 41 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 43; Now, the detection light signal of Raman fiber sensor for measuring temperature module 2 outputs is from the second optical switch module 4 inputs, detect the temperature of forward optical fiber through the first optical switch module 3 forward input detection optical fiber modules 6, now utilizing Raman fiber temperature sensor 2 to measure measured optical fiber forward temperature is T
r(L).
After obtaining the fiber optic temperature testing result, the first optical switch module 3 is set to light signal input port 31 to light signal output end mouth 33 paths, and light signal input port 32 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 33; The 3rd optical switch module 5 is set to light signal input port 52 to light signal output end mouth 53 paths, and light signal input port 51 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 53.Now, the first optical switch module 3 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 disconnect Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 and detection optical fiber module 6, Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is connected with detection optical fiber module 6 by three optical switch modules, system is enabled optical fiber Brillouin frequency displacement measurement function, the temperature of optical fiber and strain affect Brillouin shift simultaneously, and the frequency shift amount of detection optical fiber module 6 each sections that Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 records is designated as Δ v
b(L), the relation by Brillouin shift and temperature strain can show that the distribution of optical fiber strain along the line is designated as ε (L), as shown in the formula (1) formula.
In formula, C
t, C
εrespectively temperature, the coefficient of strain of Brillouin shift, for common single-mode fiber, temperature coefficient C
tget 1.07MHz/ ℃, coefficient of strain C
εget 0.05MHz/ μ ε.
In sum, in conjunction with the optical fiber forward temperature T obtained from Raman fiber sensor assembly 2
r(L) with Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 in the Brillouin shift Δ v that obtains
b(L) can draw the strain information of optical fiber whole process, realize that temperature and strain measure simultaneously.
Embodiment bis-: as shown in Figure 2, the Brillouin light fiber sensor that Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is made for utilizing the stimulated Brillouin scattering effect, Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 is for measuring the raman type optical fiber temperature measuring sensor of single-mode fiber, and the first optical switch module 3, the second optical switch module 4 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 are 1 * 2 photoswitch; Detection optical fiber module 6 is comprised of optical fibre welded module 7 and twin fiber cable 8, wherein twin fiber cable 8 comprises two single-mode fibers, a wherein end of two single-mode fibers links together by optical fibre welded module 7, the other end 61 of two single-mode fibers and 62 two input ends as detection optical fiber module 6.
At first adopt Raman fiber temperature sensor measurement fiber optic temperature, now the first optical switch module 3 is set to light signal input port 32 to light signal output end mouth 33 paths, and light signal input port 31 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 33; The 3rd optical switch module 5 is set to light signal input port 51 to light signal output end mouth 53 paths, and light signal input port 52 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 53.Now, the first optical switch module 3 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 disconnect Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 and detection optical fiber module 6, and Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 is connected with detection optical fiber module 6 by three optical switch modules.The second optical switch module 4 is set to light signal input port 41 to light signal output end mouth 42 paths, and light signal input port 41 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 43; Now, the detection light signal of Raman fiber sensor for measuring temperature module 2 outputs is from the second optical switch module 4 inputs, detect the temperature of detection optical fiber through the first optical switch module 3 input detection optical fiber modules 6, now utilizing the measured optical fiber forward of Raman fiber temperature sensor 2 temperature is T
r(L).
After obtaining the fiber optic temperature testing result, the first optical switch module 3 is set to light signal input port 31 to light signal output end mouth 33 paths, and light signal input port 32 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 33; The 3rd optical switch module 5 is set to light signal input port 52 to light signal output end mouth 53 paths, and light signal input port 51 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 53.Now, the first optical switch module 3 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 disconnect Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 and detection optical fiber module 6, Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is connected with detection optical fiber module 6 by three optical switch modules, system is enabled optical fiber Brillouin frequency displacement measurement function, the temperature of optical fiber and strain affect Brillouin shift simultaneously, and the frequency shift amount of detection optical fiber module 6 each sections that Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 records is designated as Δ v
b(L), the relation by Brillouin shift and temperature strain can show that the distribution of optical fiber strain along the line is designated as ε (L), as shown in the formula (1) formula.
In formula, C
t, C
εrespectively temperature, the coefficient of strain of Brillouin shift, for common single-mode fiber, temperature coefficient C
tget 1.07MHz/ ℃, coefficient of strain C
εget 0.05MHz/ μ ε.
In sum, in conjunction with the optical fiber forward temperature T obtained from Raman fiber sensor assembly 2
r(L) with Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 in the Brillouin shift Δ v that obtains
b(L) can draw the strain information of optical fiber whole process, realize the measurement of temperature and strain.
Embodiment tri-: the present embodiment structure is with embodiment bis-, different from embodiment bis-, originally is implemented in the Raman fiber thermometric and has adopted double-end measurement mode, double-end measurement mode temperature stack schematic diagram as shown in figure (3).
At first adopt Raman fiber temperature sensor measurement fiber optic temperature, now the first
optical switch module 3 is set to light
signal input port 32 to light signal
output end mouth 33 paths, and light
signal input port 31 is forbidden to light signal
output end mouth 33; The 3rd optical switch module 5 is set to light
signal input port 51 to light signal
output end mouth 53 paths, and light
signal input port 52 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 53.Now, the first
optical switch module 3 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 disconnect Brillouin light time
domain analyzer module 1 and detection
optical fiber module 6, Raman fiber
temperature sensor module 2 is connected with detection
optical fiber module 6 by three optical switch modules, can input
end 61 and
input end 62 inputs from detection
optical fiber module 6 by the Raman fiber temperature measurement signal respectively by the switching of the second optical switch module 4.The second
optical switch module 4 is set to light
signal input port 41 to light signal
output end mouth 42 paths, and light
signal input port 41 is forbidden to light signal
output end mouth 43; Now, the detection light signal of Raman fiber sensor for measuring
temperature module 2 outputs, from the second
optical switch module 4 inputs, detects detection optical fiber forward temperature through the first
optical switch module 3 input detection
optical fiber modules 6, and now the measuring optical fiber temperature is designated as T
1(L
1).The second
optical switch module 4 is set to light
signal input port 41 to light signal
output end mouth 43 paths, and light
signal input port 41 is forbidden to light signal
output end mouth 42; Now, the detection light signal of Raman fiber sensor for measuring
temperature module 2 outputs, from the second
optical switch module 4 inputs, detects the reverse temperature of detection optical fiber through the 3rd optical switch module 5 input detection
optical fiber modules 6, and now the measuring optical fiber temperature is designated as T
2(L
2).The distance that now fiber distance L2 is fiber distance the second optical switch module place, and the distance that L1 is fiber distance the first optical switch module place, therefore, it is L1=L-L2 that two fiber position are closed, wherein L is fiber lengths, and forward is measured to temperature T
1(L
1) and oppositely measure temperature T
2(L
2) be the temperature detection result in whole piece detection
optical fiber module 6 apart from being averaged after negate, now utilize the temperature variation that the fine distance of Raman
fiber temperature sensor 2 double-end measurement mode institutes photometry is the L place to be designated as
as shown in figure (3), when single-ended measurements, little at the measuring junction temperature noise, the tail end temperature noise is larger, after the employing double-end measurement, measuring junction and tail end noise are all less, and the temperature on whole piece optical fiber is even.
After obtaining the fiber optic temperature testing result, the first optical switch module 3 is set to light signal input port 31 to light signal output end mouth 33 paths, and light signal input port 32 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 33; The 3rd optical switch module 5 is set to light signal input port 52 to light signal output end mouth 53 paths, and light signal input port 51 is forbidden to light signal output end mouth 53.Now, the first optical switch module 3 and the 3rd optical switch module 5 disconnect Raman fiber temperature sensor module 2 and detection optical fiber module 6, Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 is connected with detection optical fiber module 6 by three optical switch modules, system is enabled optical fiber Brillouin frequency displacement measurement function, the temperature of optical fiber and strain affect Brillouin shift simultaneously, and the frequency shift amount of detection optical fiber module 6 each sections that Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 records is designated as Δ v
b(L), the relation by Brillouin shift and temperature strain can show that the distribution of optical fiber strain along the line is designated as ε (L), as shown in the formula (1) formula.
In formula, C
t, C
εrespectively temperature, the coefficient of strain of Brillouin shift, for common single-mode fiber, temperature coefficient C
tget 1.07MHz/ ℃, coefficient of strain C
εget 0.05MHz/ μ ε.
In sum, the fiber optic temperature T obtained in conjunction with double-end measurement from Raman fiber sensor assembly 2
r(L) with Brillouin light time domain analyzer module 1 in the Brillouin shift Δ v that obtains
b(L) can draw the strain information of optical fiber whole process, realize the measurement of temperature and strain.