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    • Optical sensing
    • Signal processing
    • Interferometry

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    • Phase Generated Carrier (PGC) demodulation is crucial for optical sensing.
    • Traditional PGC algorithms like PGC-DCM and PGC-Arctan suffer from harmonic distortion and sensitivity to light intensity fluctuations.
    • Variations in phase modulation depth and light source intensity impact demodulated phase signal accuracy.

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    • To propose an improved PGC demodulation algorithm addressing limitations of existing methods.
    • To investigate the impact of phase modulation depth variation and light intensity disturbance.
    • To enhance the stability and accuracy of PGC demodulation systems.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a novel PGC demodulation algorithm utilizing frequency mixing and division difference.
    • The algorithm extracts carrier modulation depth via frequency mixing to eliminate harmonic distortion.
    • Division difference is employed to suppress demodulation errors from light intensity disturbances.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed algorithm successfully eliminates harmonic distortion and suppresses light intensity disturbance errors.
    • Experimental verification using a Michelson interferometer-based PGC system demonstrates significant improvements.
    • Achieved a signal-to-noise ratio gain of 35.66 dB over PGC-Arctan and 26.26 dB over PGC-DCM at 1 kHz and 0.4 rad.

    Conclusions:

    • The improved PGC demodulation algorithm offers superior performance in terms of accuracy and stability.
    • The method effectively mitigates common sources of error in optical phase demodulation.
    • This advancement holds promise for more robust and reliable optical sensing applications.