US20170059427A1 - Device and method for spatially resolved measurement of temperature and/or strain by Brillouin scattering - Google Patents

Device and method for spatially resolved measurement of temperature and/or strain by Brillouin scattering Download PDF

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US20170059427A1 US15/227,202 US201615227202A US2017059427A1 US 20170059427 A1 US20170059427 A1 US 20170059427A1 US 201615227202 A US201615227202 A US 201615227202A US 2017059427 A1 US2017059427 A1 US 2017059427A1
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  • the present invention relates to a device and a method for spatially resolved measurement of temperature and/or strain by Brillouin scattering.
  • Brillouin scattering in optical fibers can be used for a distributed or spatially resolved measurement of temperature and strain along the optical fiber, because the frequency and the amplitude of the Brillouin scattering are a function of the measurement parameters temperature and strain (see: Galindez-Jamioy & López-Higuera, 2012 Brillouin Distributed Fiber Sensors: An Overview and Applications. 2012, 17).
  • the two measurement parameters can be separated in some situations by comparative measurements on differently installed optical fibers, for example loose tubes with a loose fiber or a tight tube with a fixed fiber (see: Inaudi & Glisic, 2006 Reliability and field testing of distributed strain and temperature sensors 6167, 61671D-61671D-8).
  • measurements of the Brillouin frequencies either in fibers with multiple Brillouin peaks (see: Liu & Bao, 2012 Brillouin Spectrum in LEAF and Simultaneous Temperature and Strain Measurement J.
  • Another method for separating the two measurement parameters is the measurement of frequency and amplitude of one or more Brillouin peaks (see: Parker, Farhadiroushan, Handerek, & Rogers, 1997, Temperature and strain dependence of the power level and frequency of spontaneous Brillouin scattering in optical fibers, Opt Lett., 22 (11), 787-789, and Maughan, Kee & Newson, 2001, Simultaneous distributed fiber temperature and strain sensor using microwave coherent detection of spontaneous Brillouin backscatter, Measurement. Science and Technology, 12 (7), 834).
  • the dependence of the amplitude on the temperature and strain is weak and amounts, for example, to approximately 0.3%/° C. Therefore, the amplitude must be measured very precisely to achieve practically relevant temperature resolutions and accuracies of about 1° C.
  • a known method for improving the accuracy is to compare the Brillouin amplitude with the amplitude of Rayleigh scattering from the same fiber (see: Wait & Newson, 1996, Landau Placzek ratio applied to distributed fiber sensing, Optics Communications, 122, 141-146).
  • the influence of fiber attenuation can be eliminated by calculating the ratio of the Brillouin amplitude to the Rayleigh amplitude, which is referred to as Landau Placzek ratio.
  • the Brillouin signal is not measured simply with an optical filter and a photodiode, because the required very narrow-band optical filters are difficult to produce and are thermally not very stable.
  • the alternative measurement of the Brillouin scattering can measure lower signal strengths with an optical heterodyne receiver (see: Maughan, Kee, & Newson, 2001).
  • Brillouin scattering signal is hereby superimposed with laser light having the same frequency as the laser exciting the Brillouin scattering or a frequency shifted by several GHz (local oscillator LO).
  • the photodetector detects a superimposed signal with a frequency that corresponds to the difference between the Brillouin frequency and the laser frequency or LO frequency, respectively.
  • the difference frequency for quartz glass is about 10 GHz.
  • This signal is typically GHz mixed with an electronic local oscillator in order to obtain a better measurable difference frequency below 1 GHz (Shimizu, Horiguchi, Koyamada & Kurashima, 1994, Coherent self-heterodyne Brillouin OTDR for measurement of Brillouin frequency shift distribution in optical fibers, Lightwave Technology, Journal of, 12 (5), 730-736).
  • the problem forming the basis of the present invention is therefore to provide a device and a method of the aforementioned type, with which the temperature and the strain can be determined more easily and/or more precisely.
  • the device comprises:
  • the sensor means can capture the two components separately.
  • the Brillouin signal is split into two polarization components, which are thereafter each superimposed with a signal having a matching polarization and detected at two optical detectors.
  • the entire signal is always measured without requiring averaging over measurements with different polarization.
  • Admixing of laser radiation to the Brillouin signal improves the sensitivity of the device because the signal to be evaluated can be significantly amplified due to the admixing.
  • the device may include two optical couplers capable of admixing laser radiation to each of the two components of the of the Brillouin signal separated by the at least one optical polarization beam splitter.
  • the device may include a beam splitter capable of splitting off a portion of the laser radiation from the laser light source used for the excitation of the Brillouin scattering before coupling into the optical fiber used for the measurement, wherein this portion of the laser radiation can be admixed to the Brillouin signal.
  • the device may include a second laser light source capable of producing laser radiation which can be admixed to the Brillouin signal.
  • the second laser light source may have a frequency different from the first laser light source, in particular a frequency that is different by about 10 GHz.
  • the device may have a beam splitter capable of splitting off a portion from the laser radiation from the laser light source used for the excitation of the Brillouin scattering before coupling into the optical fiber used for the measurement, wherein this portion may be used for tuning the second laser light source.
  • the device may include an O-PLL, which stabilizes the difference frequency between the first and the second laser light source. Due to the aforementioned choice of the difference frequency, receivers with a cutoff frequency below 1 GHz can be used as optical detectors, which have a lower detection limit.
  • a Brillouin laser may be used as the second laser light source, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,283,216 B1.
  • the device may include a beam splitter capable of splitting off from the laser radiation from the laser light source used for the excitation of the Brillouin scattering before coupling into the optical, fiber used for the measurement, wherein this portion is used for optical pumping of the Brillouin laser whose Brillouin frequency is different from that of the measured Brillouin signal. Due to this frequency difference, the Brillouin laser can serve as an optical local oscillator (OLO).
  • OLO optical local oscillator
  • the device may include components for measuring the Rayleigh scattering.
  • the accuracy of the measuring device can be improved in this manner.
  • the components for the measurement of the Rayleigh scattering may include an additional laser light source that is different from the first laser light source, whereby the additional laser light source is preferably also different from an optionally present second laser light source for the generation of laser radiation to be admixed to the Brillouin signal.
  • the additional laser light source can be used to intentionally stimulate the Rayleigh scattering.
  • the device may include as a reference an optical fiber serving or a section of the optical fiber used for the measurement serving as a reference, which is designed for example as a reference coil and generates a constant Brillouin signal at least over a predetermined length, so that this Brillouin signal can be detected with the sensor means and used to calibrate the sensitivity.
  • the optical elements in the two receive channels may have a different sensitivity for whatever reasons, reliable measurement results can be obtained in this way.
  • the method according to claim 11 includes the following process steps:
  • the two components of the Brillouin signals that are coupled out ray be detected separately.
  • two output signals which are suitably combined in particular before or after digitization, may be generated from the two detected components of the Brillouin signals, so as to obtain a polarization-independent output signal for determining the temperature and/or strain.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of a device according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic diagram of a second embodiment of a device according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a third embodiment of a device according to the invention.
  • the dashed connecting lines represent optical signals which are preferably guided in optical fibers.
  • the solid connecting lines represent electrical signal lines.
  • the device according to the invention shown in FIG. 1 includes a laser light source 1 that emits narrow-band laser radiation, for example with a line width of 1 MHz. Furthermore, the laser radiation of the laser light source 1 has a constant power of for example several 10 mW.
  • frequency-stabilized diode lasers such as a distributed feedback (DFB) laser or other narrowband lasers with an emission wavelength in the near infrared region, for example at 1550 nm, are used as a laser light source 1 .
  • DFB distributed feedback
  • the device shown in FIG. 1 furthermore includes a beam splitter 2 constructed as a fiber-optic splitter and configured to split the laser radiation from the laser light source 1 in two portions 3 , 4 .
  • the first portion 3 is coupled into the optical fiber 5 used for the measurement, with which temperature and/or strain are to be determined spatially resolved by way of excitation of Brillouin scattering.
  • the second portion 4 is used for superposition with a Brillouin signal that is generated by the Brillouin scattering and coupled out of the optical fiber 5 , as will be described hereinafter in more detail.
  • the device further includes an optical modulator 6 configured to modulate the first portion 3 of the laser radiation according to the used method for the spatial association of the scattering signals.
  • an optical modulator 6 configured to modulate the first portion 3 of the laser radiation according to the used method for the spatial association of the scattering signals.
  • pulses or pulse trains may be formed from the first portion 3
  • amplitude-modulated signals may be formed from the first portion 3 when using an OFDR (optical frequency domain reflectometry) method.
  • An unillustrated optical amplifier may amplify the first portion 3 of the laser radiation used for the measurement, before the first portion 3 is introduced in the optical fiber 5 used for the measurement by way of an optical, in particular fiber-optic circulator 7 , which is also part of the device.
  • Brillouin scattered signals are generated in the optical fiber 5 used for the measurement that are returned to the optical circulator 7 with a propagation delay of about 10 ⁇ s/km corresponding to the distance, from where they are guided by the receive path 8 of the device.
  • An unillustrated optional optical filter for example a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) may be used to suppress Rayleigh scattered light and thereby prevent interference with the measurement of the weaker Brillouin signal,
  • optical amplification with an optional optical amplifier 9 can take place in the receive path 8 .
  • Both the Brillouin signal and the second portion 4 of the laser radiation are split by optical, particularly fiber-optic polarization beam splitters 10 , 11 into linearly polarized components 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 .
  • the second portion 4 of the laser radiation is coupled, especially with respect to its polarization direction, into the polarization beam splitter 11 at an angle of 45°, so as to form two orthogonally polarized components 14 , 15 of substantially equal strength.
  • a polarization-maintaining splitter (not shown) may also be used which splits the laser radiation with a 50:50 ratio.
  • the Brillouin signal from the optical fiber 5 used for the measurement exhibits very different polarization states depending on the propagation path through the fiber and thus also on the distance.
  • the ratio of the two components 12 , 13 is therefore not constant, but depends strongly on the distance.
  • Two optical, in particular fiber-optic, couplers 16 , 17 are arranged downstream of the polarization beam splitters 10 , 11 , with of the couplers 16 , 17 coupling a component 12 , 13 of the Brillouin signal with a component 14 , 15 of the second portion 4 of the laser radiation.
  • the two components 14 , 15 with different polarization of the second portion 4 of the laser radiation and the two components 12 , 13 with different polarization of the Brillouin signal are combined in the fiber-optic couplers 16 , 17 with the correct polarization.
  • asymmetric couplers are preferably used, wherein a large portion of the Brillouin signal and a small portion of the second portion 4 of the laser beam are combined and supplied to the optical detectors 18 , 19 which will be described in more detail below.
  • Such an asymmetric coupler may have a coupling ratio of, for example, 95:5, in particular a coupling ratio between 90:10 and 99:1.
  • the asymmetric coupling ratios can prevent unintended signal losses, whereby a higher loss of the laser power admixed to the Brillouin signal is not critical, because this signal is significantly stronger.
  • a symmetrical coupling ratio is preferably used for a detection scheme with a balanced receiver diode.
  • the Brillouin signals and laser radiation portions combined with the, correct polarization are superimposed in the optical detectors 18 , 19 .
  • a respective beat signal 20 , 21 with the difference frequency between Brillouin signal and the laser radiation portion is produced in the range around 10 GHz.
  • the frequency of this beat signal 20 , 21 depends on the material of the optical fiber 5 used for the measurement, the temperature and the strain.
  • the power of the beat signals 20 , 21 is proportional to the square root of the product of the powers of the Brillouin signal and laser radiation portion. A significantly stronger measurement signal is thus produced by using high laser powers than by a direct measurement of the Brillouin scattered light, thus significantly improving the sensitivity of the device is.
  • Each of the beat signals 20 , 21 is mixed down with an electronic local oscillator 22 in a respective electronic mixer 23 , 24 to a readily measurable frequency below 1 GHz.
  • the output signals 25 , 26 from these mixers 23 , 24 for both polarizations are further amplified and digitized.
  • the first output signal 25 corresponds here to the horizontal polarization and the second output signal 26 to the vertical polarization of the beat signals 20 , 21 and the Brillouin signal, respectively.
  • both output signals 25 , 26 are suitably combined so as to obtain a polarization-independent output signal for determining the spatially dependent Brillouin parameters and ultimately the temperature or the strain.
  • the optical fiber from the laser light source 1 via the polarization beam splitters 10 , 11 to the optical fiber couplers 16 , 17 and optionally also the optical fibers to the optical detectors 18 , 19 are advantageously designed as polarization-maintaining fibers.
  • single-mode fibers may advantageously also be used.
  • the device of FIG. 2 has in addition to the first laser light source 1 a second narrow-band laser light source 27 , the laser radiation of which is used for superposition with the Brillouin signal.
  • the frequency of the second laser light source 27 is hereby adjusted so that it is shifted with respect to the frequency of the first laser light source 1 so that the difference frequency between Brillouin scattered light and second laser light source 27 is below 1 GHz.
  • a frequency shift of the two laser light sources 1 , 27 with respect to each other of somewhat more than 10 GHz is required.
  • optical detectors 18 , 19 When the difference frequency is below 1 GHz, optical detectors 18 , 19 with a cutoff frequency below 1 GHz can be used which have a lower detection limit. Moreover, amplification and filtering of the signals is easier and more efficient in this frequency range.
  • a phase-locked loop with an optical input signal is used, subsequently referred to as O-PLL (optical phase locked loop) 28 .
  • O-PLL optical phase locked loop
  • a portion of the laser radiation from both laser light sources 1 , 27 is split off by a beam splitter 2 , 29 formed as a fiber-optic splitter, is combined with the correct polarization via a fiber-optic coupler 30 and is then superposed on an optical detector 31 .
  • the measured signal contains a portion at the difference frequency of both laser light sources, which should be in the range around 10 GHz.
  • the frequency of the signal is compared in a phase-locked loop, subsequently referred to as a PLL circuit 32 , to the frequency of an electronic local oscillator 33 which was adjusted to the desired difference frequency.
  • the frequency of one of the two laser light sources 1 , 27 is adjusted on the basis of the comparison signal such that the difference frequency of the laser light sources 1 , 27 will match that of the local oscillator 33 .
  • the laser frequency is preferably adjusted via the operating current.
  • the device according to FIG. 3 differs from that according to FIG. 2 by additional components for measuring the Rayleigh scattering.
  • the CRN may be eliminated by averaging several measurements with the narrow-band laser light source at different wavelengths.
  • FIG. 3 shows a variant, in which an additional, in particular a third laser light source 34 is provided for exciting the Rayleigh scattering.
  • This additional laser light source 34 may be a broadband laser with a half-width of, for example, several nm. It should be noted at this point that the laser radiation from the additional laser light source 34 is thus considerably more broad-band than the radiation emanating from the first laser light source 1 .
  • the laser light source 34 provided for exciting the Rayleigh scattering can be directly pulsed, pulse-coded or modulated.
  • the desired time profile of the amplitude may also be generated with an optical modulator.
  • the Brillouin signal may be separated from the Rayleigh signal with an optical filter 36 , such as a fiber Bragg grating (FBG), wherein the Rayleigh signal may be received, filtered and amplified by an additional optical detector 37 .
  • the obtained output signal 38 is then digitized and digitally processed.
  • an optical filter 36 such as a fiber Bragg grating (FBG)
  • FBG fiber Bragg grating
  • two optical circulators 7 are provided, each with three connections. Instead of two optical circulators, only one optical circulator with four connections may be used.
  • a section of the measuring path may be implemented as a reference coil 39 .
  • a reference coil 39 may, of course, also be provided in the embodiments shown in FIG. 1 and/or FIG. 2 .
  • the reference coil 39 may also be omitted in the embodiment of FIG. 3 .
  • a certain length of optical fiber such as 100 meters, is installed in the reference coil 39 so that the entire fiber length generates the same Brillouin signal.
  • the fiber should have a constant temperature and a constant strain, in particular no strain.
  • the Brillouin signal from the reference coil 39 can then be measured with both receive channels and be used to calibrate the sensitivity of the receive channels.
  • the receive channels are then calibrated so as to measure together equally strong signals for the reference coil.
  • the adjusted equal sensitivity of the receive channels is advantageous for an optimum combination of the two received signals.
  • optical detectors 18 , 19 for the separate detection of the two components 12 , 13
  • combined optical detectors for the components 12 , 13 may also be provided.
  • two photodiodes may be provided on a single chip or in a housing, or only two areas may be provided on a photodiode. The two photocurrents generated by these photodiodes or in these separate areas may be connected in parallel so that only their sum is amplified and digitized.
  • the advantage of such a configuration is a better signal-to-noise ratio of the analog signal.

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