Distributed birefringence measurement of a polarization-maintaining fiber with an extended range based on an enhanced brillouin dynamic grating

Taofei Jiang, Dengwang Zhou, Meng Xia, Lei Teng, Dexin Ba, Yongkang Dong

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Abstract

A distributed birefringence measurement of a polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF) can be realized by using a Brillouin dynamic grating (BDG). However, the pump depletion decreases the intensity of the BDG along the PMF and limits the measurement range to a few hundred meters. We demonstrate a distributed birefringence measurement of the PMF with an extended range to 3030 m based on an enhanced BDG with an 18.5-ns pump-1 pulse, frequency-upshifted continuous-wave pump-2, and 4-ns read pulse (spatial resolution: 40 cm). The enhanced BDG is promising to characterize the design of a fiber coil to improve the fiber optic gyroscope performance.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9164946
JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
Volume12
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2020
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Manuscript received June 2, 2020; revised July 18, 2020; accepted August 6, 2020. Date of publication August 11, 2020; date of current version August 21, 2020. This work was supported in part by the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project of China under Grant 2017YFF0108700, and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61575052 and 61975045. Corresponding authors: Taofei Jiang. (e-mail: jiangtaofei390@126.com)

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Keywords

  • Brillouin dynamic grating
  • Brillouin optical fiber sensor
  • birefringence measurement
  • polarization maintaining fiber

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