Vibration sensing device based on optical fiber annular ring-down cavity
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the optical fiber sensing, in particular to vibration measurement sensing device based on optic fibre annular ring-down chamber.
Background
Vibration measurement is essential in many fields, such as railways, smooth operation of railways, safety concerns for people's life, and in medical, construction, and seismic fields, where strict vibration measurements must be made. The vibration sensor is a common sensor, but the existing sensor has many problems, such as the utilization of a mechanical measurement method, the operation is convenient, but the precision is poor; the existing distributed vibration sensor obtains vibration information by changing the intensity of transmitted light, and the sensor is greatly influenced by the stability of the intensity of a light source in the measurement process. Therefore, the sensor with high sensitivity and high accuracy is designed to have important value.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The to-be-solved technical problem of the utility model is to overcome the not enough of background art existence, provide a novel high, the high optic fibre annular of sensitivity of accuracy ring down the chamber and measure external vibration's sensing device.
The technical problem is solved by the following technical scheme:
a vibration sensing device based on an optical fiber annular ring-down cavity structurally comprises a signal source 1, an erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier (EDFA)2, an annular ring-down cavity 3, a photoelectric detector 4 and an oscilloscope 5; the annular ring-down cavity 3 is composed of a first optical fiber coupler 301, a second optical fiber coupler 302, a delay optical fiber 303 and a sensing optical fiber 304; the output end of the signal source 1 is connected with the input end of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier 2, the output end of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier 2 is connected with the first input end of the first fiber coupler 301, the output end of the first fiber coupler 301 is connected with the input end of the second fiber coupler 302, the first output end of the second fiber coupler is connected with the input end of the photoelectric detector 4, and the output end of the photoelectric detector 4 is connected with the oscilloscope 5; the second output end of the second optical fiber coupler 302 is connected with one end of a delay optical fiber 303, the other end of the delay optical fiber 303 is connected with one end of a sensing optical fiber 304, and the other end of the sensing optical fiber 304 is connected with the second input end of the first optical fiber coupler 301.
Preferably, the splitting ratio of the first output end to the second output end of the second fiber coupler 302 is 1: 99.
Further, the structure of the sensing fiber 304 is that the fiber is spirally adhered to the grid mesh, and a layer of elastic material is fixed on the fiber, as shown in fig. 2, the delay fiber 303 is a section of common fiber with a length greater than 1500 meters.
Has the advantages that:
1. the utility model provides an optic fibre annular ring down swings spectrum technique has the loss low, and the pulse comes and goes the number of times many, the long characteristics of optical path, the small change of loss in the optic fibre ring all can show the change that leads to ring down to swing the time, consequently can greatly improve vibration sensor's sensitivity.
2. The utility model discloses a change of optic fibre annular intracavity loss leads to the time variation that declines of light pulse in optic fibre ring, realizes the measurement to the vibration, therefore the measuring result is not influenced by light source power fluctuation, has higher accuracy.
3. The utility model discloses application scope is wide, and is corrosion-resistant, and response speed is fast.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is the utility model relates to a vibration sensing device's schematic structure based on optic fibre annular ring down chamber.
Fig. 2 is the utility model relates to a vibration sensing device middle sensing optical fiber's cloth is put the schematic diagram based on optic fibre annular ring down chamber.
Fig. 3 is the utility model relates to a vibration sensing device's tangent plane structure sketch map based on optic fibre annular ring down chamber.
Fig. 4 is the utility model relates to an optical fiber ring-shaped ring-down cavity-based vibration sensing device has the electricity signal attenuation curve that produces when having or not having the object vibration by the output of photoelectric detector.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the following examples.
EXAMPLE 1 detailed structure of the present invention
The specific structure of the utility model is shown in figure 1, and the structure comprises a signal source 1, an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)2, an annular ring-down cavity 3, a photoelectric detector 4 and an oscilloscope 5; the annular ring-down cavity 3 is composed of a first optical fiber coupler 301, a second optical fiber coupler 302, a delay optical fiber 303 and a sensing optical fiber 304; the output end of the signal source 1 is connected with the input end of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier 2, the output end of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier 2 is connected with the first input end of the first fiber coupler 301, the output end of the first fiber coupler 301 is connected with the input end of the second fiber coupler 302, the first output end of the second fiber coupler is connected with the input end of the photoelectric detector 4, and the output end of the photoelectric detector 4 is connected with the oscilloscope 5; the second output end of the second optical fiber coupler 302 is connected with one end of the delay optical fiber 303, and the splitting ratio of the first output end and the second output end of the second optical fiber coupler 302 is 1: 99; the other end of the delay fiber 303 is connected to one end of the sensing fiber 304, and the other end of the sensing fiber 304 is connected to the second input end of the first fiber coupler 301.
The structure of the sensing optical fiber 304 is shown in fig. 2, a section of optical fiber is sequentially adhered to the grid according to the sequence of a1, a2, A3, a4, B1, B2, B3, B4 and … … N4, and a layer of elastic material is fixed on the grid, wherein the sequence of the three is shown in fig. 3. The optical fiber can be made of quartz optical fiber or plastic optical fiber.
Embodiment 2 the working principle of the present invention
Pulsed light emitted by the signal source 1 enters the ring cavity through the first input end of the first optical fiber coupler 301, after the pulsed light is split by the second optical fiber coupler 302, only 1% of the pulsed light signals are output from the first output end of the second optical fiber coupler 302 and detected by the photoelectric detector 4, and the rest 99% of the pulsed light signals are output from the second output end of the second optical fiber coupler 302 and enter the ring cavity. The pulsed light is attenuated in the annular cavity for a plurality of cycles, and in each cycle, the photoelectric detector 4 outputs an exponentially attenuated electric signal due to the loss of the sensing optical fiber 304 and other optical fiber devices.
The transmission of the optical pulse signal in the optical fiber annular cavity follows the exponential attenuation law:
where I is the intensity at time t, I0The initial incident light intensity is L, the total length of the optical fiber in the annular ring-down cavity 3 is c, the transmission speed of light in vacuum is c, n is the average refractive index of the optical fiber, and A is the loss value of light during transmission of the optical fiber ring. Defining the time for light attenuation to 1/e of the initial intensity as the ring-down time τ of the cavity0。
τ0=nL/cA (2)
If an object vibrates on the sensing fiber 304, the transmission loss of light in the fiber is increased, and the light attenuation time of the cavity is also changed:
τ=nL/c(A+B) (3)
and B is the additional sensing loss caused by the vibration of the external object.
Therefore, it is understood from equation 3 that when an object vibrates on the sensing fiber, the ring-down time is shortened, and the more severe the vibration, the larger the loss, and the shorter the ring-down time. The attenuation curve of the electrical signal output by the photodetector 4 when there is object vibration on the sensing fiber 304 is shown in fig. 4. Therefore, the vibration intensity of the external physical quantity can be obtained by measuring the ring-down time.