Eliminating Light Intensity Disturbance With Reference Compensation in Interferometers

Author

Shuai Zhang ; Ailing Zhang ; Honggang Pan

Author_Institution

Tianjin Key Lab. of Film Electron. & Commun. Devices, Tianjin Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China

Volume

27

Issue

17

fYear

2015

fDate

Sept.1, 1 2015

Firstpage

1888

Lastpage

1891

Abstract

In this letter, we introduce an improved phase-generated carrier (PGC) demodulation algorithm using reference compensation method to eliminate the influence of light intensity disturbance (LID) in interferometric fiber-optic sensors. In this method, the impacts of LID on acoustic signal and reference signal are the same. The impact of LID on reference signal can be measured via calculating the envelope variation of demodulated reference signal. Then, the impact of LID on acoustic signal is divided off through reference compensation. The improved PGC demodulation algorithm with merit of resisting LID was experimentally demonstrated. The signal-to-noise ratio of demodulation result based on the improved PGC algorithm achieves a gain of 11.78 dB over PGC algorithm using differential-cross-multiplying.

Keywords

demodulation; fibre optic sensors; light interferometry; phase modulation; LID; PGC algorithm; PGC demodulation algorithm; acoustic signal; demodulated reference signal; differential-cross-multiplying; envelope variation; gain 11.78 dB; interferometric fiber-optic sensors; light intensity disturbance; phase-generated carrier demodulation algorithm; reference compensation method; signal-to-noise ratio; Acoustics; Demodulation; Laser stability; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical interferometry; Fiber optics sensors; PGC; Phase modulation; Reference compensation; phase modulation; reference compensation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2015.2444421

Filename

7122285