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Fiber Optic Distributed Sensors for High-resolution Temperature Field Mapping
Published on: November 7, 2016
High-Resolution Temperature Sensor Based on Single-Frequency Ring Fiber Laser via Optical Heterodyne Spectroscopy
Liangcheng Duan1, Haiwei Zhang2, Wei Shi3
1Institute of Laser and Optoelectronics, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information Science and Technology (Ministry of Education), School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. dlc@tju.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We demonstrate a high-resolution temperature sensor based on optical heterodyne spectroscopy technology by virtue of the narrow linewidth characteristic of a single-frequency fiber laser. When the single-frequency ring fiber laser has a Lorentzian-linewidth <1 kHz and the temperature sensor operates in the range of 3-85 °C, an average sensitivity of 14.74 pm/°C is obtained by an optical spectrum analyzer. Furthermore, a resolution as high as ~5 × 10-3 °C is demonstrated through optical heterodyne spectroscopy technology by an electrical spectrum analyzer in the range of 18.26⁻18.71 °C with the figure of merit up to 3.1 × 10⁵ in the experiment.
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