WO2002016909A1 - Procede et appareil de detection de charge transversale a l'aide d'une fibre optique decalee en phase pi - Google Patents
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- Fiber Bragg gratings for sensing strain in the direction parallel to an optical fiber is well known. It is also possible to use Bragg gratings to measure strain, e.g. in a direction transverse to the optical fiber in a host material in which the fiber is embedded, or from a load applied to the optical fiber. This approach is based on the principle that a nonaxisymmetric load applied to the optical fiber will create birefringence in the optical fiber that one can observe by splitting the refection spectrum of the Bragg grating into two peaks (having maxima at ⁇ , and ⁇ 2 respectively), corresponding to the fast and the slow axes of the grating.
- n is the average index of refraction of the grating core
- ⁇ " ( ⁇ , + ⁇ 2 )/2 is the average wavelength of the grating.
- microstrain resolution which normally implies changes in fiber birefringence smaller than 10 "6 .
- This level of birefringence corresponds to wavelength separations much smaller than the typical bandwidth of a Bragg grating.
- Bragg gratings written in polarization maintaining fiber has been proposed.
- Such fiber has an initial birefringence that is sufficient to split completely the grating's spectrum into two separate spectral peaks, and what is monitored are small changes in the spectral separation already present.
- polarization maintaining fiber is unduly expensive.
- an object of the invention is to permit measurement of strain, loading, or the like in an optical fiber directed transverse to the fiber's optical axis.
- Another object is to do the foregoing in a manner which is relatively temperature insensitive.
- Another object is to do the foregoing with micro strain resolution.
- Another object is to do the foregoing without the need for polarization maintaining optical fiber.
- the invention concerns a method and apparatus which employs an optical fiber with at least some birefringence, and in which is a ⁇ -phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating, along with a detector disposed to detect, responsive to light incident on the grating, the spectral position of each transmission peak of the grating.
- peaks are unique to ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg gratings, and by monitoring the position of, or change in separation of, the spectral positions of the peaks, one can infer fiber birefringence, or change of birefringence over time.
- Figure 1 is a schematic view illustrating an embodiment according to the invention.
- Figure 2 is a graph having three curves, each illustrating aspects of the spectral response of a ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg grating.
- Figure 3 is a schematic of an embodiment according to the invention used to test features of the invention.
- Figure 4 is a schematic of the apparatus used in the test to load a ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg grating transverse to its optical axis.
- Figure 5 is a graph of data taken in the.
- Figure 6 is a graph of data taken with an apparatus similar to that of figure 3, illustrating temperature stability of the apparatus.
- figure 1 is a schematic showing an embodiment according to the invention.
- Laser 10 outputs a relatively broadband signal to optical coupler 12 and ultimately to a length of optical fiber 14 in which is inscribed a ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg grating 19.
- Fiber 14, and hence grating 19 has a mechanical load 16 directed on it, e.g. from stressing object in which fiber 14 is embedded or by placing a load on fiber 19, which physically distorts the glass of fiber 14 in a direction transverse to direction 15 .
- This distortion causes corresponding distortion in the fast and slow birefringent axes of fiber 14, changing the fiber's net birefringence.
- Members 13 and 17 are the individual grating elements of the Bragg grating, illustrated schematically in figure 1 as vertical lines, and are periodically spaced portions of fiber 14 at which the fiber's index of refraction has been changed to vary sufficiently from surrounding glass to set up an optical grating in fiber 14.
- Forming elements 13, 17, can be done in any conventional manner, e.g. by doping fiber 14 with material having a differing index of refraction, or, more commonly, by inscription using a laser.
- Disposed between grating elements 13, 17, is a portion 15 of fiber 14 containing no gratings.
- Spacing 15 is characteristic of a ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg grating, and distinguishes it from an ordinary Bragg grating by setting up, in effect, a narrow bandwidth Fabry-Perot filter within the Bragg grating.
- Detector 18 receives and detects light transmitted through fiber 14 as a function of optical wavelength, and detector 26 does the same for light reflected from fiber 14 though optical coupler 24 via optical tap 22.
- Detectors 18, 26 can be any device which can detect optical power or intensity as a function of wavelength, and preferably are simple and conventional spectrum analyzers or oscillographs.
- Direction 15 represents for sake of illustration the optical axis of fiber 14, and is the direction through which light flows through grating 19.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the response of a ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg fiber.
- Curves a, b, and c represent the transmission response of the grating, normalized to a magnitude of one, for light polarized at three different orientations to the gratings fast and slow axes.
- Each of the curves shows a transmission notch 27 corresponding to the effective bandwidth of the Bragg grating, disposed about a center wavelength 32, which is characteristic of all Bragg gratings.
- Within bandwidth 27 is a narrowband portion 28, 30 of high transmissivity characteristic of a ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg.
- Curves 28 and 30 illustrate grating response for light which is polarized directly along the respective fast and slow axes of the optical fiber in which the grating resides.
- Curve b illustrates grating response for input light which is polarized transverse to the fast and slow axes, resulting in two peaks 28' and 30' narrowly spaced from one another in wavelength, each on the order of half the magnitude of peaks 28, 30, indicating that peaks 28' and 30' resulted from optical energy which split between the two birefringent axes of the fiber carrying the Bragg grating.
- the wavelength spacing between axes 28 'and 30' thus reflects the amount of birefringence in fiber 14 and permits a means by which to measure it. Because the spacing peaks 28', 30' is much narrower than bandwidth 27 of the Bragg grating, this permits a more sensitive measure of birefringence than is obtainable by ordinary, non- ⁇ -phase-shifted, Bragg gratings.
- Bragg grating 19 reflects a portion of the light, which couples through member 24 to detector 26, and transmits a portion of the light, which couples via member 20 to detector 18.
- the light transmitted to detector 18, and that transmitted to detector 26 are complementary to one another: the spectrum detected at 18 is like the curves of figure 2, with bandwidth 27 appearing as a notch removed from the spectrum of laser 12, and peaks 28, 28', 30, 30' appearing as passband peaks; whereas the spectrum detected at 26 is like the curves of figure 2 flipped about the wavelength axis, with a peak within bandwidth 27, and a notched trough corresponding to 28, 28', 30, 30'.
- the spectral responses at either of detectors 18 or 26 is hereinafter generically called the spectral response of ⁇ -phase-shifted Bragg grating 19, and the bands 28, 28', 30, 30' referred to generically as transmission peaks, with the understanding that the term comprehends as well the corresponding reflection notch as viewed at detector 26.
- a Phonetics Tunics 1550 tunable laser 10' was used to interrogate grating 19'.
- Laser 10' had a step accuracy of 1pm, but could be controlled with high resolution over a approximately 30 pm range by use of an external voltage applied to the laser's fine scanning input (FSC in figure 3) (2.0pm/V at 300 Hz).
- the spectrum of the selected 30 pm region of laser 10's output was displayed as an x-y trace on oscilloscope 31 (TEKl) (the x and y axes defining a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of Bragg grating 19').
- Detector 26' Dl provided the signal for the y-axis.
- Polarization controller 32 (PC) was used to adjust the polarization of input light, and phase shifter 34 ( ⁇ ( ⁇ ) was used to compensate for the laser's voltage-to-wavelength delay. This method of interrogation was selected because of the availability of the components in the test's laboratory, and does not represent an optimal system in terms of either achievable resolution or overall system cost.
- the ⁇ -phase-shifted grating 19' was written in Naval Research Laboratory photosensitive fiber by use of the ultraviolet re-exposure approach, and figure 2 is the resultant spectral response of grating 19'.
- the center wavelength of the free grating was measured to be 1566.872 nm, with polarization peaks 28', 30' separated by 6.0 pm and each having a full-wave-half-maximum bandwidth of 3.6 pm.
- the separation of the peaks was measured by use of oscilloscope 30's built in cursor-voltmeter features, with a 0.1 pm (0.05 V) resolution, corresponding to a 6(10) "8 birefringence resolution.
- polarization controller 32 was manually adjusted to alternate between the peaks.
- Figure 5 shows the measured birefringence as a function of the applied load (per unit fiber length) for three different orientations of the ⁇ -phase-shifted grating 19'.
- the scale at the top of figure 5 gives the strain difference (6 x -£ y ) at the core of fiber 14', with a scale factor of 339 ⁇ £f (N/mm), as provided by theory.
- the wavelength separation ⁇ between peaks 28', 30' is:
- F is the force on grating 19' per unit length
- E f 70.3 and is Young's modulus of optical fiber 14'
- d f 1.25 ⁇ m and is the diameter of fiber 14'
- V O.17 Poisson's ration for fiber 14'.
- the applied load either increases of decreases birefringence.
- the initial effect of the load is to rotate the direction of the principal axes, with no change in the magnitude of the birefringence.
- the slope of the linear portions of the data is 73 ⁇ 2pm/(N/mm), whereas theory predicts 78.5 pm/(N/mm). This discrepancy, it is believed, can be attributed to the lack of precise knowledge during the test of the optical properties of grating 19', and P ⁇ and P 12 in particular, at the wavelength used.
- the 0.1 pm accuracy of the setup corresponds to 1.4 (10) "3 N/mm, or 0.5 ⁇ £- of strain difference.
- the maximum separation of the transmission peaks is approximately 100 pm for grating 10', corresponding to a -500 ⁇ C principal strain difference in the optical fiber, or a 1.4 N/mm transverse load. This is sufficient for many practical applications, particularly so because the transverse strain differences in optical fiber is typically 20 to 100 times smaller than those in a host.
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