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Title: Spatially resolved fibre cavity ring down spectroscopy

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a fibre cavity ring down spectroscopy probed by Rayleigh scattering optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR), which provides spatial location of stimuli and improved signal to noise ratio for distributed sensing measurements. A section of optical fibre was integrated into an active fibre ring cavity with optical gain and interrogated by the OFDR system for 11 cycles with a single laser scan. Through the cavity ring down configuration, root-mean-squared (RMS) noise of distributed temperature and strain measurements was reduced to 6.9 mK and less than 0.1 με, respectively for 1-cm spatially resolved measurements. Our work shows that the active fibre cavity configuration can be combined with distributed fibre sensing schemes to achieve both high spatial resolution and high sensitivity measurements.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Leidos, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
OSTI Identifier:
1720188
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1816578
Grant/Contract Number:  
FE00029063; FE00028992; 89243318CFE000003
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Chen, Rongzhang, Peng, Zhaoqiang, Wang, Mohan, Yan, Aidong, Li, Shuo, Huang, Sheng, Li, Ming-Jun, and Chen, Kevin P. Spatially resolved fibre cavity ring down spectroscopy. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-76721-y.
Chen, Rongzhang, Peng, Zhaoqiang, Wang, Mohan, Yan, Aidong, Li, Shuo, Huang, Sheng, Li, Ming-Jun, & Chen, Kevin P. Spatially resolved fibre cavity ring down spectroscopy. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76721-y
Chen, Rongzhang, Peng, Zhaoqiang, Wang, Mohan, Yan, Aidong, Li, Shuo, Huang, Sheng, Li, Ming-Jun, and Chen, Kevin P. Thu . "Spatially resolved fibre cavity ring down spectroscopy". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76721-y.
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title = {Spatially resolved fibre cavity ring down spectroscopy},
author = {Chen, Rongzhang and Peng, Zhaoqiang and Wang, Mohan and Yan, Aidong and Li, Shuo and Huang, Sheng and Li, Ming-Jun and Chen, Kevin P.},
abstractNote = {Abstract This paper presents a fibre cavity ring down spectroscopy probed by Rayleigh scattering optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR), which provides spatial location of stimuli and improved signal to noise ratio for distributed sensing measurements. A section of optical fibre was integrated into an active fibre ring cavity with optical gain and interrogated by the OFDR system for 11 cycles with a single laser scan. Through the cavity ring down configuration, root-mean-squared (RMS) noise of distributed temperature and strain measurements was reduced to 6.9 mK and less than 0.1 με, respectively for 1-cm spatially resolved measurements. Our work shows that the active fibre cavity configuration can be combined with distributed fibre sensing schemes to achieve both high spatial resolution and high sensitivity measurements.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-020-76721-y},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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