CN110617872B - Optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system and method based on compensation interference - Google Patents

Optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system and method based on compensation interference Download PDF

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CN110617872B
CN110617872B CN201910893241.6A CN201910893241A CN110617872B CN 110617872 B CN110617872 B CN 110617872B CN 201910893241 A CN201910893241 A CN 201910893241A CN 110617872 B CN110617872 B CN 110617872B
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The invention discloses an optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system and method based on compensation interference, which comprises the following steps: a signal transmitting unit for inputting a pulse signal; the compensating interference unit is provided with an unbalanced arm difference and is used for converting the pulse signal into a pulse signal pair with delay and outputting the pulse signal pair; the optical ring unit is used for transmitting the pulse signal pair; the time division multiplexing array unit is provided with a time division multiplexing array and is used for splitting and delaying pulse signal pairs, combining all delayed signals after the sensing signals are obtained, and transmitting time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals to a second port of the optical ring unit from the input/output port; and the signal receiving unit is used for analyzing the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal to obtain a sensing signal. The comprehensive performance of the large-scale optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array can be greatly improved, and the application requirements of the optical fiber hydrophone submarine shore-based fixed array and other related fields are met.

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Optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system and method based on compensation interference
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of optical fiber hydrophones, in particular to an optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system and method based on compensation interference.
Background
The optical fiber hydrophone is an optical fiber sensor which is established on the basis of optical fibers and photoelectric technology and utilizes sound waves to detect, position and identify underwater acoustic targets. The optical fiber hydrophone has the advantages of small volume, light weight and the like, can conveniently establish various underwater optical fiber sensing networks, and provides an ideal technical approach for solving the problems of underwater acoustic detection, petroleum exploration and the like related to the ocean development strategy. Typical application modes of the optical fiber hydrophone comprise a seabed shore-based fixed array, a towed array, a floating buoy and the like, wherein the shore-based array has the advantages of stable array type, capability of continuously watching for a long time, low self-noise far away from a ship and the like, and has important application prospects. With the continuous improvement of application requirements, the optical fiber hydrophone shore-based array develops towards the direction of super-large scale and super-long distance, the problems of sharp increase of remote transmission noise, increase of cost and manufacturing difficulty of large-scale array and the like are brought, and the practical application of the optical fiber hydrophone is examined. At present, a low-noise and high-reliability large-scale optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission system becomes a research hotspot of related organizations at home and abroad, and the primary theoretical and experimental results are as follows:
(1) in the technical aspect of large-scale optical fiber hydrophone arrays, the existing system schemes comprise an equal-arm optical path compensation interference optical scheme, an independent probe interference scheme and the like. An equal-arm compensated interferometric array optical structure typically consists of an array of 1 compensating interferometer and 1 time-division multiplexed delayed reflection string. Time division multiplexingThe array comprises passive optical devices such as beam splitting/combining coupler group, delay coil (probe sensing fiber) and reflecting end face, and the arm difference L of the delay coil1. Delay time difference tau between adjacent channels of time division multiplexing array1＝2L1n/c, wherein n is the refractive index of the optical fiber, and c is the speed of light in vacuum; the compensating interferometer is an unequal-arm martensitic interferometer with an arm difference L, and the compensating interferometer outputs a delay difference tau of a pulse pair2Ln/c. 2L is arranged in the equal-arm compensation interference structure1＝L2The time delay difference of the output pulse pair of the compensation interferometer is equal to the time delay difference of the time division multiplexing pulse channel, namely the time delay difference delta tau of the two compensated interference light fields is equal to tau1-τ20. In practical application, the compensation interferometer is located at a light emitting end or a receiving end, a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) array is located at a wet end, interference of the hydrophone array is achieved after the compensation interferometer and the TDM array are combined, and an output optical signal is an equal-arm interference pulse sequence containing Time Division Multiplexing sensing information. Foreign laboratory (NRL) studies have shown that: the delay optical fiber of the optical fiber hydrophone array of the compensation interference optical structure can be simultaneously used as the optical fiber of the optical fiber hydrophone sensing probe, and the single optical fiber coupler can realize the beam splitting and beam combining functions. In the independent probe interference type TDM array structure, each hydrophone probe consists of a Michelson interferometer, and the delay fiber only completes the TDM channel delay function. Therefore, compared with an independent probe interference type TDM array, the optical path compensation interference TDM array can greatly simplify the number of optical devices, the number of welding points and the complexity of a manufacturing process of the array, and has the advantages of simple structure, high reliability, low cost and the like in large-scale array formation. Therefore, the compensating interference optical structure is the preferred optical scheme of the large-scale optical fiber hydrophone array.
(2) In the aspect of remote transmission technology of the optical fiber hydrophone, as the transmission distance of the analog optical signal increases, linear and nonlinear noises such as coherent Rayleigh scattering noise (Rayleigh), Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS), Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) and the like are aggravated, so that the weak acoustic signal detection capability of the optical fiber hydrophone is affected. In which coherent Rayleigh scattering noise is one of the most important linear noise, an optical isolator is usedAnd the influence of Rayleigh noise on a hydrophone remote transmission system can be greatly reduced by an internal modulation Phase Generation Carrier (PGC) demodulation technology based on unbalanced independent interference. The internal modulation PGC modulation and demodulation technology is a signal demodulation scheme with wider application of the optical fiber hydrophone. The scheme loads a sinusoidal modulation signal with certain frequency and amplitude on a light source, introduces the frequency modulation signal into an interference phase signal of a hydrophone through an arm difference of a hydrophone unbalanced interferometer, and modulates a frequency shift quantity (delta f) at an optical frequency1) The arm difference time delay (delta tau) of the independent interferometer satisfies 2 pi delta f1When x Δ τ is 2.4rad, highly stable signal demodulation can be achieved and the rayleigh scattering noise suppression effect exceeds 20 dB; among the various nonlinear noises, the SBS threshold is the lowest, and its impact on the hydrophone system far exceeds other effects, severely limiting the long-range transmission distance and array size of the fiber optic hydrophone array. The existing SBS suppression schemes include controlling the injected light power below the SBS threshold, and a parameter-matched Phase Modulation (PM) technique. The parameter matching PM technique uses an unbalanced independent interference scheme at the phase modulation frequency (Δ f)2) Satisfies the time delay (delta tau) of the arm difference of the independent interferometer2If the x Δ τ is k (k is a positive integer), the SBS threshold can be increased by 10dB or more. The scheme realizes stable demodulation of interference signals without obviously increasing phase noise of the hydrophone, can greatly improve the array scale and the remote transmission distance, and has good application prospect. Therefore, the method adopts the internal modulation PGC modulation and demodulation and parameter matching PM technology, and realizes the comprehensive suppression of linear and nonlinear noises based on the unbalanced interference structure, thereby being the preferable signal demodulation and optical noise suppression scheme of the optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission system.
According to the technical development characteristics and advantages, the combination of the optical path compensation interference optical technology and the PGC and PM modulation technology is an important technical approach for constructing a large-scale remote transmission system of the high-performance optical fiber hydrophone. However, based on special technical barriers, in the existing literature reports or patents, the PGC modulation and demodulation technology is only applied to the fiber hydrophone remote transmission system with the unbalanced independent probe structure, the parameter matching PM technology is only applied to the single-element unbalanced independent interference remote transmission hydrophone system, and the equal-arm optical path compensation interference optical scheme is only applied to the large-scale fiber hydrophone array system in combination with schemes such as heterodyne demodulation and the like. At present, there is no report that the above technologies are simultaneously applied to a large-scale optical fiber hydrophone array remote transmission system to realize stable demodulation of hydrophone array signals and transmission noise suppression.
Most of the prior art optical fiber hydrophone array systems are based on the following two schemes: 1. adopting an equal arm difference compensation interference array scheme of heterodyne demodulation; 2. the unbalanced independent probe array scheme of PGC modulation and demodulation is adopted.
(1) In the first scheme, the equal-arm compensation interference array optical structure adopting heterodyne demodulation has the advantages of simple array optical structure and signal processing method, high array reliability, low cost and the like, and is suitable for engineering application of large-scale optical fiber hydrophone arrays. There are problems with the application to fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission arrays:
1. in the equal-arm compensation interference structure adopting heterodyne demodulation, the round-trip length of the array delay optical fiber is equal to the arm difference of the equi-gain compensation interferometer, namely the compensated interference time delay delta tau is equal to 0, so that delta f is caused2X Δ τ ≡ 0, the phase modulation scheme Δ f cannot be satisfied2X Δ τ ═ k (k is a positive integer). The suppression of the remote transmitted stimulated brillouin scattering noise can only be achieved by controlling the optical power injected into the remote fiber below the stimulated brillouin scattering threshold. Compared with a phase modulation stimulated Brillouin scattering suppression scheme, the total optical power budget of the system is reduced by more than 10dB, and the remote transmission distance and the array scale are greatly limited.
2. The fixed frequency difference delta f is introduced into two beams of light in an interference light field by the aid of an equal-arm compensation interference structure for heterodyne demodulation, signals of relevant frequencies are extracted, demodulation of hydrophone phase information is achieved, and a heterodyne demodulation scheme does not have the noise suppression capacity. And the internal modulation is based on the unbalanced independent interference, and the internal modulation Phase Generation Carrier (PGC) scheme adds optical frequency modulation with certain amplitude to the light source, and realizes the extraction of the hydrophone sensing information by demodulating the modulation signal. PGC light frequency modulation can modulate and disperse coherent Rayleigh scattering light fieldAnd the frequency is multiplied to the modulation frequency, so the PGC modulation and demodulation scheme has the advantage of Rayleigh scattering noise suppression and is more suitable for being applied to a remote transmission array system. However, for similar reasons to PM modulation, 2 pi Δ f cannot be satisfied because Δ τ is 0 in the equal-arm compensation interferometric array system1The x Δ τ is 2.4rad of the PGC modem scheme base condition, and therefore the advantages of the inner modulation PGC modem scheme cannot be applied to the existing compensation interferometric array.
3. In the optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission system, external noise, vibration, temperature disturbance and other interference can act on a transmission optical fiber and realize accumulation through remote transmission, and finally pickup noise is introduced into a hydrophone interference signal. In the existing heterodyne demodulation equal-arm compensation interference scheme, a compensation interferometer is placed at a transmitting end of a system, and a remote transmission optical fiber is positioned behind the compensation interferometer and in front of a time division multiplexing array. After the pickup noise of the transmission optical fiber is matched by the time division multiplexing array, the time difference of the noise light field is delayed by the time tau of the time division channel1Determining, i.e. τ1＝2L1n/c. Thus, the optical fiber pick-up noise is converted into interference phase noise through the optical differential effect of the TDM array, and the noise amplitude DnThe following relationship is satisfied:
Dn＝2πfnAnτ1 (1)
wherein f isnAnd AnRespectively the frequency and initial amplitude of the fiber picked up the noise. Equation (1) shows the differential noise amplitude DnWith TDM channel delay time tau1I.e. round trip arm difference L of TDM delay coil1Is in direct proportion. In optical systems with independent probe interference, DnArm difference delta from probeLIs in direct proportion. For reducing frequency jitter delta of light sourcefBy arm difference δLPhase noise, delta, introduced into hydrophone interference systemsLUsually controlled in the order of m; while compensating for L in the interference structure1Usually in the order of tens of m, so the compensating interference system determined by equation (1) picks up much more noise than the independent interference structure.
(2) And in the second scheme, a PGC modulation and demodulation unbalanced independent probe array scheme is adopted, each probe in the array is a Michelson interferometer with unbalanced interference, and the time division multiplexing system adopts a delay optical fiber and a beam splitting/combining coupler which are independent of the probe. The PGC modulation signal is loaded on the light source, so that the simultaneous loading of each probe modulation signal and the interference phase information demodulation can be realized. However, the scheme has the defects that each probe of the array is an independent Michelson interferometer, and the number of couplers, optical fibers, reflectors, welding points and the like adopted by the time division multiplexing array is 2-3 times of that of a compensation interference structure. Therefore, in the actual manufacturing process of a large-scale array, the independent probe scheme greatly increases the complexity of the process and the optical loss and cost of the array relative to the compensation interference scheme, and has obvious disadvantages.
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Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention provides an optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference, which can be combined with the advantages of remote noise suppression and high-stability signal demodulation of PGC modulation and demodulation and parameter matching PM modulation technology, so that the comprehensive performance of a large-scale optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array is greatly improved, and the application requirements of an optical fiber hydrophone seabed shore-based fixed array and other related fields are met.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference, comprising:
the signal transmitting unit comprises an output port and is used for outputting a high-power optical pulse signal loaded with PGC modulation and phase modulation;
the remote transmission unit comprises a downlink optical fiber and a return optical fiber, wherein the incident end of the downlink optical fiber is connected with the output port of the signal transmitting unit through a connecting optical fiber and is used for remotely transmitting the pulse signal;
the compensation interference unit is provided with an unbalanced arm difference and comprises an input port and an output port, the input port of the compensation interference unit is connected with the emergent end of the downlink optical fiber through a connecting optical fiber, and the pulse signal is converted into a pulse signal pair with delay through the unbalanced arm difference and is output;
the optical ring unit comprises a first port, a second port and a third port, wherein the first port of the optical ring unit is connected with the output port of the compensation interference unit through a connecting optical fiber and is used for transmitting a pulse signal pair;
the optical fiber hydrophone array unit is provided with a time division multiplexing sensing array and comprises an input/output port, the input/output port of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit is connected with the second port of the optical ring unit through a connecting optical fiber and is used for splitting and delaying pulse signals, combining all delayed signals after the sensing signals are obtained, transmitting time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals to the second port of the optical ring unit from the input/output port, and the third port of the optical ring unit is connected with the incident end of the return optical fiber through the connecting optical fiber;
and the signal receiving unit comprises an input port, is connected with the emergent end of the return optical fiber through a connecting optical fiber and is used for receiving the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with the sensing signal and carrying out time division multiplexing removal and PGC demodulation on the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal to obtain the sensing information acquired by the time division multiplexing sensing array.
Further preferably, the optical fiber hydrophone array unit includes N first optical fiber couplers, N first delay optical fibers, and N +1 first faraday rotators, where N is a natural number greater than 1;
the first optical fiber coupler comprises an input port, a first output port and a second output port, the first Faraday rotator mirror comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the first optical fiber coupler is the input port and the output port of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit;
the input port of the first optical fiber coupler is connected with the second port of the optical ring unit through a connecting optical fiber, and the first output port of the first optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the first Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber;
an input port of the ith first optical fiber coupler is connected with a second output port of the ith-1 st first optical fiber coupler through an i-1 st first delay optical fiber, a first output port of the ith first optical fiber coupler is connected with an input/output port of the ith first Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber, wherein i is 2-N;
and the input/output port of the (N +1) th Faraday rotator mirror is connected with the second output port of the Nth first optical fiber coupler through the Nth first delay optical fiber.
Preferably, the optical fiber hydrophone array unit further comprises a plurality of elastic cylinders corresponding to the first delay optical fibers one to one, and the first delay optical fibers are wound on the corresponding elastic cylinders to form sensing probes of the time division multiplexing sensing array.
More preferably, the lengths of the first delay fibers are equal.
Further preferably, the compensation interference unit is a full single-mode unbalanced michelson interference structure, and specifically includes a second fiber coupler and two second faraday rotators;
the second optical fiber coupler comprises an input port, a first output port, a second output port and a third output port, the second Faraday rotator mirror comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the second optical fiber coupler is the input port of the compensation interference unit, and the third output port of the second optical fiber coupler is the output port of the compensation interference unit;
the input port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the signal input end through a connecting optical fiber, the first output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the first second Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber, and the second output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the second Faraday rotator mirror through a second delay optical fiber;
and a third output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the first port of the optical annular unit through a connecting optical fiber.
Further preferably, the length of the second delay fiber is greater than that of the first delay fiber, and the difference value is less than 1 m.
Further preferably, the vibration isolation device further comprises a vacuum vibration isolation unit, wherein the compensation interference unit is positioned in the vacuum vibration isolation unit to minimize the influence of external sound/vibration interference on the compensation interference unit.
Further preferably, the signal transmitting unit includes:
the optical fiber hydrophone comprises a light source for the optical fiber hydrophone, a phase detector and a phase detector, wherein the light source is used for outputting continuous light loaded with PGC modulation signals;
the phase modulator comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the phase modulator is positioned on the optical path of the continuous light loaded with the PGC modulation signal and is used for performing phase modulation on the continuous light and outputting the continuous light;
the optical pulse generator comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the optical pulse generator is connected with the output port of the phase modulator through a connecting optical fiber and is used for chopping continuous light into a pulse signal;
the first optical fiber amplifier comprises an input port and an output port, the input port of the first optical fiber amplifier is connected with the output port of the optical pulse generator through a connecting optical fiber, and the output port of the first optical fiber amplifier is the output port of the signal transmitting unit and is used for amplifying and outputting the pulse signals so as to compensate the optical path loss of subsequent remote transmission and large-scale arrays.
Further preferably, the signal receiving unit includes:
the second optical fiber amplifier comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the second optical fiber amplifier is connected with the exit end of the return optical fiber through a connecting optical fiber and is used for amplifying and outputting the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal so as to compensate the loss of a subsequent remote transmission optical path;
the photoelectric converter comprises an input port and an output port, the input port of the photoelectric converter is connected with the output port of the second optical fiber amplifier through a connecting optical fiber and is used for converting the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal into a time division multiplexing interference electric signal;
the analog-to-digital converter comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the analog-to-digital converter is electrically connected with the output port of the photoelectric converter and is used for converting the time division multiplexing interference electric signal from an analog signal into a digital signal;
and the signal processor comprises an input port and an output port, and the input port of the signal processor is electrically connected with the output port of the analog-to-digital converter and is used for performing Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and PGC demodulation to obtain the sensing information acquired by the time division multiplexing sensing array.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention further provides a transmission method for a fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array based on compensation interference, which includes the following steps:
the signal transmitting unit outputs a pulse signal loaded with PGC modulation and PM modulation, and the pulse signal is sent to the compensation interference unit through the path transmission unit;
the compensation interference unit converts the pulse signals into pulse signal pairs with delay and outputs the pulse signal pairs, and the pulse signal pairs are sent to the optical fiber hydrophone array unit through the optical ring unit;
the optical fiber hydrophone array unit performs time division multiplexing on the pulse signal pair to obtain a time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with a sensing signal: the optical fiber hydrophone array unit simultaneously performs beam splitting and time delay on two single pulse signals in the pulse signal pair for multiple times, acquires sensing signals in the delay process, then performs beam combining on each delayed signal to obtain time division multiplexing sequences corresponding to the two single pulse signals, the two time division multiplexing sequences are overlapped and interfered in time sequence, wherein the overlapped and interfered part is the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with the sensing signals;
the time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals are sent to the signal receiving unit through the optical ring unit and the remote transmission unit, and the signal receiving unit carries out signal conversion, time division multiplexing de-multiplexing and PGC demodulation on the time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals to obtain the sensing signals.
The invention provides an optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference, which converts an input pulse signal in a single pulse form into a pulse signal pair in a double pulse form through a compensation interference unit with unbalanced arm difference and outputs the pulse signal pair, then utilizes a time division multiplexing array unit to perform time division multiplexing on the pulse signal pair, collects a sensing signal and outputs a time division multiplexing pulse pair with the sensing signal, finally combines an initial pulse signal pair with the time division multiplexing pulse pair with the sensing signal and outputs the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with the sensing signal and subjected to unbalanced compensation interference, and can load a unified PGC modulation frequency difference signal and a unified PM modulation phase difference signal in all interference signals in an optical fiber hydrophone array through time difference generated during interference in the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal subjected to unbalanced compensation interference so as to ensure the consistency of the optical fiber hydrophone array, and the stable demodulation of the hydrophone sensing array signals and the inhibition of the remote transmission Rayleigh scattering noise and SBS noise can be realized through PGC modulation and demodulation and PM modulation. The structure makes the remote transmission optical fiber independent of the optical fiber hydrophone array, greatly reduces the noise amplitude value of optical differential introduced into the hydrophone sensing channel by utilizing the time delay offset effect of transmission noise, ensures that the remote transmission system has the function of self-inhibiting of remote transmission pickup noise, and further reduces the remote transmission noise.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensating interference in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a timing diagram of a pulse signal input from a signal input terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a timing diagram of dual optical pulse signals output by the compensating interference unit according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a timing diagram of the TDM interference pulse signals output from the TDM array unit according to the embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a graph of pickup noise comparison test results in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a diagram of short-range versus long-range noise floor test results in an embodiment of the present invention.
The implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that all the directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, and rear … …) in the embodiment of the present invention are only used to explain the relative position relationship between the components, the movement situation, etc. in a specific posture (as shown in the drawing), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.
In addition, the descriptions related to "first", "second", etc. in the present invention are only for descriptive purposes and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "secured" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral part; the connection can be mechanical connection, electrical connection, physical connection or wireless communication connection; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
In addition, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention may be combined with each other, but it must be based on the realization of those skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination of technical solutions should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.
Fig. 1 shows an optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference, which includes a signal transmitting unit, a compensation interference unit (CI), an optical ring unit (CIR), a time division multiplexing array unit (nxtmd), and a signal receiving unit, wherein the signal transmitting unit and the signal receiving unit are located at one end of the remote transmission, and the compensation interference unit and the time division multiplexing array unit are located at the other end of the remote transmission.
The signal transmitting unit comprises a light source for the fiber-optic hydrophone, a Phase Modulator (PM), an Optical Pulse Generator (OPG) and a first fiber amplifier.
The optical fiber hydrophone comprises a light source for the optical fiber hydrophone, a PGC modulation component and a PGC signal generator, wherein the light source is loaded with the PGC modulation component and is used for outputting continuous light loaded with PGC modulation signals; a Phase Modulator (PM) including an input port and an output port, the input port of the phase modulator being located on an optical path of the continuous light loaded with the PGC modulation signal, for phase-modulating the continuous light and outputting; an Optical Pulse Generator (OPG) comprising an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the optical pulse generator is connected with the output port of the phase modulator through a connecting optical fiber and is used for chopping continuous light into a pulse signal; the first optical fiber amplifier comprises an input port and an output port, the input port of the first optical fiber amplifier is connected with the output port of the optical pulse generator through a connecting optical fiber, and the output port of the first optical fiber amplifier is the output port of the signal transmitting unit and is used for amplifying and outputting the pulse signals so as to compensate the optical path loss of subsequent remote transmission and large-scale arrays.
The working process of the signal transmitting unit is as follows: loading PGC sine modulation signal on narrow line width light source (Laser), modulatingThe continuous light is subjected to high-frequency sinusoidal Phase Modulation by a Phase Modulator (PM) and enters an Optical Pulse Generator (OPG); after OPG, the continuous light is chopped into a pulse width tau0And the low duty ratio optical pulse sequence with the period of T enters an erbium-doped fiber power amplifier (EDFA-BA) for power amplification. The EDFA-BA outputs high-power pulse light to compensate the optical path loss of subsequent remote transmission and large-scale arrays.
The compensating interference unit is a full single-mode unbalanced Michelson interference structure with unbalanced arm difference, and specifically comprises a second fiber coupler C0And two second Faraday rotators FRM, wherein the coupling ratio of the second fiber coupler is 50%. The second optical fiber coupler comprises an input port, a first output port, a second output port and a third output port, the second Faraday rotator mirror comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the second optical fiber coupler is the input port of the compensation interference unit, and the third output port of the second optical fiber coupler is the output port of the compensation interference unit; the input port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the signal input end through a connecting optical fiber, the first output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the first second Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber, and the second output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the second Faraday rotator mirror through a second delay optical fiber L0Connecting; and a third output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the first port of the optical ring unit through a connecting optical fiber.
Preferably, the optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on the compensation interference further comprises a vacuum vibration isolation unit, the compensation interference unit is located in the vacuum vibration isolation unit to minimize the influence of external sound/vibration interference on the compensation interference unit, so that the compensation interference unit only generates delay time of 2L theoretically0The low duty ratio optical pulse pair of n/c does not interfere the underwater acoustic detection performance of the subsequent hydrophone array, wherein L0Is the length of the second delay fiber, n is the fiber refractive index, and c is the speed of light.
The optical pulse signal in the form of single pulse is converted into a pulse signal pair in the form of double pulse with delay by a compensation interference unit and output, and the working process is as follows: the pulse signal input by the signal input end enters the second optical fiber coupler from the input port of the second optical fiber coupler and is divided into two beams of same optical pulse signals which are respectively output to the two Faraday rotators from the first output port and the second output port of the second optical fiber coupler and then enter the second optical fiber coupler from the first output port and the second output port of the second optical fiber coupler for beam combination, because the first output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the first second Faraday rotator mirror through the connecting optical fiber, the second output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the second Faraday rotator mirror through the second delay optical fiber, so that time intervals exist between optical pulses returned by the two Faraday rotators, after the two pulse signals are combined by the second optical fiber coupler, a pulse signal pair with delay and double pulse forms is formed.
The optical ring unit comprises a first port 1, a second port 2 and a third port 3, wherein the first port of the optical ring unit is connected with the output port of the compensation interference unit through a connecting optical fiber and is used for transmitting a pulse signal pair;
the optical fiber hydrophone array unit is internally provided with a time division multiplexing sensing array which comprises an input/output port, the input/output port of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit is connected with the second port of the optical ring unit through a connecting optical fiber, and is used for splitting and delaying pulse signals, combining all delayed signals after the sensing signals are acquired, and transmitting time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals to the second port of the optical ring unit through the input/output port, specifically:
the optical fiber hydrophone array unit comprises N first optical fiber couplers C1～CNN first delay fibers L1～LNAnd N +1 first Faraday rotators FRM1～FRMN+1The length of the second delay optical fiber is greater than that of the first delay optical fiber, and the difference value is less than 1 m; the N first delay fibers are equal in length, and N is a natural number greater than 1. The first optical fiber coupler comprises a first optical fiberThe first Faraday rotator mirror comprises an input port, a first output port and a second output port, wherein the input port of the first optical fiber coupler is the input/output port of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit.
The input port of the first optical fiber coupler is connected with the second port of the optical ring unit through a connecting optical fiber, and the first output port of the first optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the first Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber; an input port of the ith first optical fiber coupler is connected with a second output port of the ith-1 st first optical fiber coupler through an i-1 st first delay optical fiber, a first output port of the ith first optical fiber coupler is connected with an input/output port of the ith first Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber, wherein i is 2-N; and the input/output port of the (N +1) th Faraday rotator mirror is connected with the second output port of the Nth first optical fiber coupler through the Nth first delay optical fiber. In the actual manufacturing process of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit, the beam splitting ratio of each first optical fiber coupler is accurately adjusted and set according to parameters such as insertion loss of an optical device, loss of a welding point and the like, and the beam splitting ratio of the first optical fiber coupler in the embodiment is 1/(N +1) -1/2;
preferably, the optical fiber hydrophone array unit further comprises a plurality of elastic cylinders corresponding to the first delay optical fibers one to one, and the first delay optical fibers are wound on the corresponding elastic cylinders to form sensing probes of the time division multiplexing sensing array.
The working process of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit is as follows: the pulse signal pair enters the optical fiber hydrophone array unit from the input port of the first optical fiber coupler and passes through N first delay optical fibers (L)1～LN) And simultaneously realizing the TDM array pulse division delay and underwater acoustic sensing functions, sequentially returning N +1 optical pulses by the N +1 FRMs, and completing beam combination by each first optical fiber coupler to form a time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with a sensing signal and input the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal to the second port of the optical ring unit.
The signal receiving unit includes: the second optical fiber amplifier comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the second optical fiber amplifier is connected with the exit end of the return optical fiber through a connecting optical fiber and is used for amplifying and outputting the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal so as to compensate the loss of a subsequent remote transmission optical path; a photoelectric converter (Detector, D) comprising an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the photoelectric converter is connected with the output port of the second optical fiber amplifier through a connecting optical fiber and is used for converting the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal into a time division multiplexing interference electric signal; an analog-to-digital converter (A/D) comprising an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the analog-to-digital converter is electrically connected with the output port of the photoelectric converter and is used for converting the time division multiplexing interference electric signal from an analog signal to a digital signal; and the signal processor comprises an input port and an output port, and the input port of the signal processor is electrically connected with the output port of the analog-to-digital converter and is used for performing Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and PGC demodulation to obtain the sensing information acquired by the time division multiplexing sensing array.
The working process of the signal receiving unit is as follows: returning light output by the hydrophone array returned by the returning optical fiber sequentially passes through an erbium-doped fiber preamplifier (EDFA-PA), a photoelectric converter (D) and an analog-to-digital converter (A/D), and then is sent to a signal processor for time division multiplexing and PGC demodulation to obtain sensing information of the time division multiplexing array probe.
It should be noted that, on the basis of this embodiment, by adding optical devices such as a multi-wavelength light source, a wavelength division multiplexing/demultiplexing device, a space division multiplexing/demultiplexing coupler, and a transmission optical fiber, it can be conveniently extended to time division wavelength division multiplexing (WDM × TDM × SDM) hybrid multiplexing, thereby forming a larger-scale optical fiber hydrophone array remote transmission system.
Referring to fig. 2, the time sequence structure of the pulse signal input by the signal transmitting unit is determined by the external optical pulse generation, and for the optical fiber hydrophone array structure with the time division multiplexing number of N, the optical pulse period T shown in fig. 2 is the single-channel sampling rate f of the hydrophonecReciprocal of (d):
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in the formula (2) fcDetection signal bandwidth f with hydrophonesThe TDM multiplexing number N and the signal modulation/demodulation scheme are related to each other, and are not described herein again. To avoid TDM channel pulse crosstalk, the pulse width τ of the optical pulses in FIG. 20Channel spacing time tau should be less than TDM1，τ1The expression of (a) is:
Figure BDA0002209424610000132
wherein n is the refractive index of the optical fiber, L1Is the length of the first delay fiber and c is the speed of light. After the pulse signal shown in fig. 2 enters the compensation interference unit, and is split, delayed and combined by the compensation interference unit, the compensation interference unit outputs an uninterferenced dual-light pulse sequence with a low duty ratio, which is defined as A, B pulse sequence. The repetition period of the AB dipulse sequence is still T, the time interval tau between the A pulse and the B pulse2By compensating for interference unit arm differences, i.e. length L of the second delay fibre0Determining:
Figure BDA0002209424610000133
referring to the pulse signal pair sequence shown in FIG. 3, due to τ2＞τ0A, B pulse by compensating for the arm difference L of the interference cell0The delay is staggered in time sequence, and the two pulses do not interfere. Second optical fiber coupler C0Is 50%, so the amplitude of the A, B pulses is equal. Due to L0And L1The difference between them is within 1m, L0Is slightly larger than L1The optical design of (A) makes the time delay between the double pulses output by the compensation interference unit be slightly tau2Slightly larger than TDM channel time delay tau1Therefore, the compensation interference unit and the TDM are combined to realize unbalanced compensation interference,and the pulses of the front and rear channels of the TDM after the compensation interference can not be mixed. If the PGC and PM modulation are applied to the pulse signal input from the signal input terminal, the frequency of the transmitted light field is the time-varying frequency f (t). Let the optical frequency of the pulse A be f (t), then compensate the arm difference L of the interference unit0The resulting pulse B will have an optical frequency of f (t + τ)2)。
Referring to fig. 4, it is a diagram of interference pulse signals output by the fiber optic hydrophone array unit in this embodiment, and the TDM array has N +1 faraday rotators, so that a single pulse a returns to a TDM sequence consisting of N +1 pulses after TDM beam splitting, delaying and combining. Pulse 1 in FIG. 4A～(N+1)AIs a set of TDM sequences, and 1A～(N+1)AThe time delay between each pulse is tau1The repetition period of each sequence being T, i.e. pulse 1AAnd 1'AThe period in between is T. The TDM light pulse sequence returned by the pulse B is similar to the pulse A, but the group A TDM pulse and the group B TDM pulse have time delay tau2I.e. the time delay tau between M and 1B in FIG. 42. In the total return light of the TDM array, A, B two TDM pulse trains overlap in time sequence and interfere with each other, and the TDM light pulse interfering in one repetition period is 2AAnd 1B、3AAnd 2B......(N+1)AAnd NBTheir interference signals respectively contain a sensing probe S1～SNSensing information of, the sensing probe S1～SNNamely an elastic cylinder and a first delay optical fiber wound on the elastic cylinder, and uniform micro time delay delta tau exists between each group of interfered optical fields:
Figure BDA0002209424610000141
since the frequency of the optical pulse A is f (t + tau)1) The frequency of the pulses B is f (t + tau)2) A, B time difference delta tau is generated when two light pulses at different time interfere, unified PGC modulation frequency difference signal and PM modulation phase difference signal can be loaded in all interference signals of the array by utilizing delta tau, thus ensuring the consistency of the system and being capable of modulating and demodulating through PGCAnd PM modulation realizes stable demodulation of the hydrophone sensing array signals and suppression of remote transmission Rayleigh scattering noise and SBS noise.
Frequency shift amount delta f of PGC modulation when optical frequency is adjusted1Frequency Δ f of PM modulation2And the delay difference delta tau satisfy 2 pi delta f1Under the conditions of x delta tau being 2.4rad and delta f2 x delta tau being k (k is a positive integer), the unbalanced compensation interference system under the dual modulation can achieve the optimal working state.
Firstly, 2 pi delta f1In 2.4rad condition, for each TDM channel interference signal, to reduce the source self frequency jitter deltafPhase noise introduced into a hydrophone interference system by Δ τ, it is generally desirable to control Δ τ below 10ns, L0-L1Is less than 1 m. To satisfy deltafThe noise suppression requirement, the selectable optical frequency modulation frequency shift quantity delta f1A sufficiently high laser to reduce Δ τ or Δ L. E.g. narrow linewidth semiconductor laser, of1Can reach more than 100 MHz. At Δ f1For example, 100MHz, n is 1.45, c is 3 × 108Substituting parameters such as C2.4 into the above condition, Δ L and Δ τ may be about 0.38m and 3.8ns, respectively, where C represents the PGC modulation amplitude; through the parameter design, the magnitude of delta L of the compensation interference structure is equal to that of the arm difference delta L of the independent probe structure, so that the compensation interference system can also obtain PGC demodulation performance and remote transmission noise suppression effect which are equal to those of the independent probe structure after PGC and PM modulation;
second consideration of Δ f2X Δ τ ═ k (k is a positive integer) condition. Under the condition that delta tau and delta L are determined, the modulation frequency delta f is set2At the lowest, let k equal to 1, so the optimum operating frequency Δ f of PM modulation2About 263 MHz. Because the magnitude of delta tau of the compensation interference structure is equal to the magnitude of arm difference delay time delta tau of the independent probe structure, parameters such as the optimal working frequency selection and the noise suppression effect of PM modulation are consistent with the independent probe structure;
under the condition that the parameters are basically determined, the TDM channel delay can be obtained through formulas (2) to (3) according to the system parameters such as the actual array scale, the detection bandwidth and the channel sampling rate of the optical fiber hydrophoneLength L of optical fiber1And compensating for an arm difference L of the interference unit0. In practical application, L1And L0Typically on the order of tens of meters. The main parameters of the compensating interferometric element and the hydrophone array element referred to in this embodiment can thus be derived. Through structure and parameter design, the simplest array optical structure can be used for realizing stable PGC modulation and demodulation and optimal remote transmission Rayleigh scattering and SBS noise suppression effects.
In the optical fiber hydrophone compensation interference remote transmission system, the interference of vibration, stress and the like in the external environment acts on the transmission optical fiber to change and continuously accumulate the optical characteristics of the transmission optical fiber such as the length, the refractive index and the like, so that the phase of a transmission optical field is modulated, and finally pickup noise is generated in a hydrophone sensing signal, wherein the noise is one of important factors influencing the performance of the compensation interference structure remote transmission system. The optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on the compensation interference in the embodiment is applied to the problem, and the remote round-trip transmission optical fiber of the optical fiber hydrophone array is independent of the compensation interference system. As shown in fig. 1, the compensation interference unit and the optical ring unit are adjacently placed to the TDM array and are simultaneously located at the wet end detection position after remote transmission, and effective suppression of pickup noise is realized by the delay matching effect of the compensation interference unit and the TDM array. The specific principle is as follows:
without loss of generality, the phase change of a transmission light field caused by light path pickup is changed into a single-frequency sinusoidal signal:
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wherein phinAnd fnThe amplitude and frequency of the picked-up sound signal, respectively. The pickup signal is subjected to compensation interference between adjacent compensation interference units and TDM (time division multiplexing) compensation interference, and finally converted into interference phase noise of the hydrophone by the optical differential effect of A, B pulsed light field
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(7) Where t ═ 2t + τ1+τ2，Δτ＝τ2-τ1. In the practical application occasion of optical fiber hydrophone array remote transmission, the pickup interference frequency fnUsually below 5kHz, Δ τ below 10ns, so π fpDelta tau < 1, the formula (7) can be further simplified as follows:
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wherein Dn＝2πfnφnΔ τ is the amplitude of the interference noise. According to the equation (8), after the compact compensating interference structure is designed, the pickup noise of the long-distance transmission optical fiber can be mostly cancelled by the time delay compensating interference and the optical differential effect of A, B pulses. As can be seen by comparing the formula (8) with the formula (1), the value of Δ τ < τ1And under the same pickup amplitude, the pickup interference in the structure is converted into the amplitude of hydrophone phase noise, and the original structure is greatly reduced.
In practical application, the compensation interference unit is placed in a vacuum isolated vibration isolation device and is arranged to the seabed together with the optical fiber hydrophone array to form a compact wet end compensation interference structure. The probe of the optical fiber hydrophone array can sense the underwater sound signals, and the compensation interference unit only optically generates delay pulse pairs and is insensitive to the underwater sound signals, so that unbalanced compensation interference and underwater sound signal detection of the hydrophone array can be realized.
In summary, in the fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference provided in this embodiment, the unbalanced compensation interference array optical structure is combined with PGC modulation and demodulation and PM modulation, so as to realize remote transmission of coherent rayleigh scattering, SBS noise suppression and demodulation signals of array interference signals. On the basis, the time delay compensation principle of teletransmission pickup noise is utilized to greatly reduce the pickup noise of an optical path, and the teletransmission noise is further suppressed. The embodiment simultaneously solves the difficult problems of low-noise remote transmission and large-scale array structure simplification, greatly improves the comprehensive performance compared with the existing system solution, and has good application prospect in the field of large-scale optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission shore array.
The effect of the fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on the compensation interference in the embodiment is analyzed by combining specific tests such as pickup noise suppression of the transmission fiber optic path, noise comparison of the remote transmission system and the short-range transmission system, and the like:
the test system is based on the structure as shown in FIG. 1, TDM array delay fiber L1Compensating for interference unit arm difference L of 26.5m027.18m, the unbalanced matching arm difference Δ L is 0.68 m. The round-trip transmission optical fibers are all 50km, the optical power injected into the down 50km transmission optical fibers is 20mw, and far exceeds the SBS threshold in a spontaneous state. The parameters of PGC modulation and demodulation and PM modulation are set to meet the optimal working condition of the system. The length of the down transmission optical fiber is wound on the diameter
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On a piezoelectric ceramic (PZT). By applying a sinusoidal voltage signal to the PZT, the PZT flexes to cause a change in the length of the transmission fiber to simulate an optical path pickup signal in the environment. A comparative test is performed on the optical scheme for delay matching cancellation proposed in this embodiment and the conventional scheme, that is, first, 50km of transmission fiber and PZT are placed in front of the compensation interference unit and the TDM array, which is the scheme in this embodiment, and then, 50km of transmission fiber and PZT are placed between the compensation interference unit and the TDM, which is the original scheme for matching the dry end. The amplitude of the pickup noise measured for different schemes by PZT plus 2kHz, 5V sinusoidal signal under the same pickup interference is shown in fig. 5.
The results shown in fig. 5 show that when using a conventional dry-end compensation interference scheme, i.e., placing the compensating interference unit in front of the long-haul optical fiber, the transmission line pickup noise amplitude introduced by the PZT modulated signal at 2kHz is-44.29 dB @2kHz (0dB ═ 1rad/sqrt (hz)). The optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on the compensation interference provided by the embodiment is adopted, namely, the compensation interference unit is placed atAfter light is transmitted and when the light is placed adjacent to TDM, the pick-up noise amplitude of the transmission line introduced by the PZT modulation signal of 2kHz is-75.32 dB @2kHz, and compared with the noise of the original dry end matching scheme, the noise is reduced by 31.03 dB. Theoretically, the difference in pickup noise between the two schemes obtained from equations (1) and (8) is: 20log10 (L)1Δ L) ═ 31.8 dB. The theory and the test result are basically consistent, and the inhibition effect of the optical fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on the compensation interference on the pickup noise of the optical path is verified. In addition, in the low frequency band below 500Hz, the spontaneous pickup noise exists in the remote transmission system due to the interference of external sound/vibration, and the like, and the result of fig. 5 shows that the amplitude of the spontaneous pickup noise of the conventional scheme is much higher than the noise result measured under the structure of the embodiment.
On the basis of the sound pickup noise test, a round trip 50km transmission optical fiber is removed, a compensation interference unit is changed into an independent interferometer with the arm difference delta L being 0.68m, short-range system noise is tested and compared with long-range matching interference system noise, and the result is shown in fig. 6. The results of FIG. 6 show that the self-noise of the short-range system is relatively flat within the system bandwidth of 100Hz to 5000Hz, and is between about-98 dB to-100 dB; in the result of the 50km round-trip transmission test, the noise of the remote system in other frequency bands is not obviously increased compared with the noise of the short-range system except the PZT external signal near 2 kHz. Therefore, the fiber hydrophone remote transmission array system based on the compensation interference provided by the embodiment has good PGC and PM modulation and demodulation effects, and coherent rayleigh scattering and SBS and other noises introduced by remote transmission are basically eliminated.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications and equivalents of the present invention, which are made by the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly/indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

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1. A fiber optic hydrophone remote transport array system based on compensating interference, comprising:
a signal transmitting unit including an output portFor output loadingPGCModulating and phase modulating, and amplifying the high-power optical pulse signal;
the remote transmission unit comprises a downlink optical fiber and a return optical fiber, wherein the incident end of the downlink optical fiber is connected with the output port of the signal transmitting unit through a connecting optical fiber and is used for remotely transmitting the pulse signal;
the compensation interference unit is provided with an unbalanced arm difference and comprises an input port and an output port, the input port of the compensation interference unit is connected with the emergent end of the downlink optical fiber through a connecting optical fiber, and the pulse signal is converted into a pulse signal pair with delay through the unbalanced arm difference and is output;
the optical ring unit comprises a first port, a second port and a third port, wherein the first port of the optical ring unit is connected with the output port of the compensation interference unit through a connecting optical fiber and is used for transmitting a pulse signal pair;
the optical fiber hydrophone array unit is provided with a time division multiplexing sensing array and comprises an input/output port, the input/output port of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit is connected with the second port of the optical ring unit through a connecting optical fiber and is used for splitting and delaying pulse signals, combining all delayed signals after the sensing signals are obtained, transmitting time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals to the second port of the optical ring unit from the input/output port, and the third port of the optical ring unit is connected with the incident end of the return optical fiber through the connecting optical fiber;
the signal receiving unit comprises an input port, is connected with the emergent end of the return optical fiber through a connecting optical fiber and is used for receiving a time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with a sensing signal and carrying out time division multiplexing and demultiplexing on the time division multiplexing interference pulse signalPGCDemodulating to obtain sensing information acquired by the time division multiplexing sensing array;
the optical fiber hydrophone array unit comprisesNA first optical fiber coupler,NA first delay fiber andN+1 first Faraday rotator mirrors, wherein,Nis a natural number greater than 1;
the first optical fiber coupler comprises an input port, a first output port and a second output port, the first Faraday rotator mirror comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the first optical fiber coupler is the input port and the output port of the optical fiber hydrophone array unit;
the input port of the first optical fiber coupler is connected with the second port of the optical ring unit through a connecting optical fiber, and the first output port of the first optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the first Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber;
first, theiAn input port of the first optical fiber coupler and a second optical fiber coupleri-1 second output port of the first fiber coupler passes throughi-1 first delay fibers connected, secondiA first output port and a second output port of the first optical fiber coupleriThe input and output ports of the first Faraday rotator mirror are connected through a connecting optical fiber, wherein,i=2~N；
first, theNInput/output port and the second of +1 first Faraday rotator mirrorNA second output port of the first optical fiber coupler passes throughNA first delay fiber;
the compensation interference unit is of a full single-mode unbalanced Michelson interference structure and specifically comprises a second optical fiber coupler and two second Faraday rotary mirrors;
the second optical fiber coupler comprises an input port, a first output port, a second output port and a third output port, the second Faraday rotator mirror comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the second optical fiber coupler is the input port of the compensation interference unit, and the third output port of the second optical fiber coupler is the output port of the compensation interference unit;
the input port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the signal input end through a connecting optical fiber, the first output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the first second Faraday rotator mirror through a connecting optical fiber, and the second output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with the input/output port of the second Faraday rotator mirror through a second delay optical fiber;
a third output port of the second optical fiber coupler is connected with a first port of the optical annular unit through a connecting optical fiber;
the length of the second delay optical fiber is greater than that of the first delay optical fiber, and the difference value is less than 1m。
2. The fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference of claim 1, wherein the fiber optic hydrophone array unit further comprises a plurality of elastic cylinders corresponding to the first delay fibers in a one-to-one manner, and the first delay fibers are wound on the corresponding elastic cylinders to form sensing probes of the time division multiplexing sensing array.
3. The fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensated interference of claim 1, wherein the lengths of the first delay fibers are equal.
4. The fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference of claim 1, 2 or 3, further comprising a vacuum vibration isolation unit, wherein the compensation interference unit is located in the vacuum vibration isolation unit to minimize the influence of external acoustic/vibration interference on the compensation interference unit.
5. The fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the signal transmitting unit comprises:
light source for fiber optic hydrophone, for output loading withPGCContinuous light of the modulated signal;
a phase modulator comprising an input port and an output port, the input port of the phase modulator being loaded withPGCModulating the optical path of the continuous light of the signal to perform phase modulation on the continuous light and output the phase-modulated continuous light;
the optical pulse generator comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the optical pulse generator is connected with the output port of the phase modulator through a connecting optical fiber and is used for chopping continuous light into a pulse signal;
the first optical fiber amplifier comprises an input port and an output port, the input port of the first optical fiber amplifier is connected with the output port of the optical pulse generator through a connecting optical fiber, and the output port of the first optical fiber amplifier is the output port of the signal transmitting unit and is used for amplifying and outputting the pulse signals so as to compensate the optical path loss of subsequent remote transmission and large-scale arrays.
6. The fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the signal receiving unit comprises:
the second optical fiber amplifier comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the second optical fiber amplifier is connected with the exit end of the return optical fiber through a connecting optical fiber and is used for amplifying and outputting the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal so as to compensate the loss of a subsequent remote transmission optical path;
the photoelectric converter comprises an input port and an output port, the input port of the photoelectric converter is connected with the output port of the second optical fiber amplifier through a connecting optical fiber and is used for converting the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal into a time division multiplexing interference electric signal;
the analog-to-digital converter comprises an input port and an output port, wherein the input port of the analog-to-digital converter is electrically connected with the output port of the photoelectric converter and is used for converting the time division multiplexing interference electric signal from an analog signal into a digital signal;
a signal processor including an input port and an output port, the input port of the signal processor being electrically connected to the output port of the analog-to-digital converter for performing time division multiplexing andPGCand demodulating to obtain the sensing information acquired by the time division multiplexing sensing array.
7. A transmission method of a fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array based on compensation interference, which is characterized in that the fiber optic hydrophone remote transmission array system based on compensation interference of any one of claims 1 to 6 is adopted, and comprises the following steps:
the signal transmitting unit outputs a pulse signal loaded with PGC modulation and PM modulation, and the pulse signal is sent to the compensation interference unit through the path transmission unit;
the compensation interference unit converts the pulse signals into pulse signal pairs with delay and outputs the pulse signal pairs, and the pulse signal pairs are sent to the optical fiber hydrophone array unit through the optical ring unit;
the optical fiber hydrophone array unit performs time division multiplexing on the pulse signal pair to obtain a time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with a sensing signal: the optical fiber hydrophone array unit simultaneously performs beam splitting and time delay on two single pulse signals in the pulse signal pair for multiple times, acquires sensing signals in the delay process, then performs beam combining on each delayed signal to obtain time division multiplexing sequences corresponding to the two single pulse signals, the two time division multiplexing sequences are overlapped and interfered in time sequence, wherein the overlapped and interfered part is the time division multiplexing interference pulse signal with the sensing signals;
the time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals are sent to the signal receiving unit through the optical ring unit and the remote transmission unit, and the signal receiving unit carries out signal conversion, time division multiplexing de-multiplexing and PGC demodulation on the time division multiplexing interference pulse signals with the sensing signals to obtain the sensing signals.
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