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Yu Wang1,2, Jie Zou1, Yuelin Xu2
1College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control Systems (Ministry of Education and Shanxi Province), Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China.
Abstract:
In order to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a distributed optical fiber vibration sensor based on coherent optical time domain reflectometry (COTDR), a high extinction ratio cascade structure of an acousto-optic modulator and semiconductor optical amplifier is applied. The prior time-frequency analysis and least mean square error algorithm are adopted in the COTDR system for amplitude demodulation and phase demodulation, in order to improve the SNR by noise elimination. The experimental results show that the adaptive filter based on the least mean square error algorithm could realize the extraction of a three-order sinusoidal harmonic signal from strong background noise along the optical fiber and the SNR improvement from 10.4 dB to 42.2 dB. The proposed demodulation algorithm is suitable for the detection of vibration signals with characteristic frequencies in the application of acoustic fault diagnosis for electromechanical devices.
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