OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR AND BRILLOUIN FREQUENCY SHIFT MEASUREMENT METHOD

To achieve low cost by direct modulation of a semiconductor laser.SOLUTION: A optical fiber sensor includes: a light source that generates optical pulses as probe light using a direct modulation method; an optical bandpass filter that extracts anti-Stokes light, which is a component of Brillouin sca...

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Zusammenfassung:To achieve low cost by direct modulation of a semiconductor laser.SOLUTION: A optical fiber sensor includes: a light source that generates optical pulses as probe light using a direct modulation method; an optical bandpass filter that extracts anti-Stokes light, which is a component of Brillouin scattering light on an anti-Stokes side, from backscattered light generated by the probe light in an optical fiber to be measured; a split section that splits the anti-Stokes light extracted by an optical bandpass filter into two branches; an interference signal acquisition unit that receives one of the two branches of the anti-Stokes light split by the split section and generates an interference signal by self-delayed homodyne interference; an intensity acquisition unit to which the other anti-Stokes light split into two branches at the split section is input and an intensity signal indicating the intensity of the anti-Stokes light is generated; and a Brillouin frequency shift acquisition unit that acquires an amount of Brillouin frequency shift from the interference signal and the intensity signal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】半導体レーザを直接変調することで、低コスト化を実現する。【解決手段】プローブ光として、直接変調方式で光パルスを生成する光源と、プローブ光により測定対象となる光ファイバで発生する後方散乱光から、ブリルアン散乱光の反ストークス側の成分である反ストークス光を抽出する光バンドパスフィルタと、光バンドパスフィルタで抽出された反ストークス光を2分岐する分岐部と、分岐部で2分岐された一方の反ストークス光が入力されて、自己遅延型のホモダイン干渉により干渉信号を生成する干渉信号取得部と、分岐部で2分岐された他方の反ストークス光が入力されて、反ストークス光の強度を示す強度信号を生成する強度取得部と、干渉信号及び強度信号から、ブリルアン周波数シフト量を取得するブリルアン周波数シフト取得部とを備えて構成される。【選択図】図1