阅读说明：本技术 基于相位累加测量法的光频域反射计式传感解调方法 (Optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on phase accumulation measurement method ) 是由 涂郭结 王梦凡 冯玮 俞本立 于 2021-08-10 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明属于光纤传感技术领域,尤其涉及基于相位累加测量法的光频域反射计式传感解调方法。本发明提供的基于相位累加测量法的光频域反射计式传感解调方法,通过计算每个相邻扫描周期内的相位差序列,并进行累加实现应变测量,在不会引入额外的噪声干扰同时,兼顾解决了相位解缠绕对最大相位变化值的限制问题,有效地增加了应变测量范围,实现高精度与高空间分辨率的应变测量。(The invention belongs to the technical field of optical fiber sensing, and particularly relates to an optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on a phase accumulation measurement method. According to the optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measurement method, the phase difference sequence in each adjacent scanning period is calculated and accumulated to realize strain measurement, so that the problem of limitation of phase unwrapping on the maximum phase change value is solved while no additional noise interference is introduced, the strain measurement range is effectively enlarged, and the strain measurement with high precision and high spatial resolution is realized.)

1. The optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measuring method is characterized by comprising the following steps of:

s1, injecting laser generated by the tunable laser source and scanned by equal periodicity into the optical fiber to be tested, and collecting an OFDR time domain signal of the optical fiber to be tested;

s2, obtaining the real phase phi of the OFDR time domain signal of each scanning period in the step S1_i(z), i is the laser wavelength scanning times, i is 1,2, …, n, z is the fiber distance;

s3, obtaining phi in adjacent scanning period_i(z) subtracting to obtain the unwrapped phase difference delta phi_i(z), i.e. Δ Φ_i(z)＝Φ_i+1(z)-Φ_i(z)；

S4, unwrapping the phase difference delta phi of the step S3_i(z) sequentially performing unwrapping operation to obtain a true phase difference

S5, all phase differences in the step S4Sequentially adding to obtainNamely, it is The total phase difference corresponding to the whole strain loading process;

s6, comparing the total phase difference in step S5And carrying out differential operation to obtain a strain change value of the optical fiber to be detected.

2. The optical frequency domain reflectometry-based sensing and demodulating method based on the phase accumulation measuring method of claim 1, wherein in step S1, the OFDR time domain signal is obtained by the collecting device after mixing the rayleigh scattered optical signal generated by the optical fiber to be measured with the local oscillator light.

3. The optical frequency domain reflectometry based sensing/demodulating method according to claim 1, wherein in step S2, the OFDR time domain signal obtained in each scanning period is recorded in the optical frequency domain, the frequency domain signal is transformed into the space domain complex signal by fourier transform, the phase angle of the space domain complex signal is calculated, and then the real phase Φ of the OFDR time domain signal is extracted by unwrapping for each scanning period_i(z)。

4. The method for optical frequency domain reflectometry based on phase accumulation measurement as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step S3, the difference between the phase difference of the adjacent points in the same group in two adjacent scanning periods is less than 2 pi.

5. The method for demodulation by optical frequency domain reflectometry based on phase accumulation measurement as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step S6, the total strain is measuredAnd carrying out differential operation to obtain differential relative phases on the whole optical fiber to be detected, wherein phase mutation can occur at the strain position, positioning can be carried out through mutation, and the strain size can be obtained through conversion.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of optical fiber sensing, and particularly relates to an optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on a phase accumulation measurement method.

Background

Distributed fiber sensing has received much attention because of its small size, corrosion resistance, and immunity to electromagnetic interference, and has been applied to various parameter measurements, including strain, temperature, vibration, etc. Among them, strain measurement is important in civil engineering construction monitoring, 3D shape sensing and other industrial applications, and therefore, it has been a research hotspot in the field of optical fiber sensing. The spatial resolution is a basic index of strain measurement, and currently, distributed optical fiber sensing capable of realizing high-spatial-resolution strain measurement mainly comprises Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA) based on Brillouin scattering and Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometer (OFDR) based on Rayleigh scattering.

The BOTDA technology depends on the linear relation between strain and Brillouin frequency shift, and the basic principle is that one beam of pulse pumping light and one beam of continuous probe light are used, the frequency difference of the two beams of light is in the Brillouin spectrum range, a stimulated Brillouin effect is generated, the two beams of light are subjected to energy transfer, and the energy transfer is maximum when the frequency difference of the two beams of light is equal to the Brillouin frequency shift. Therefore, by scanning the frequency difference of the two beams of light and recording the energy transfer magnitude of the optical fiber along the line under each frequency difference, the Brillouin frequency shift distribution of the optical fiber along the line can be obtained, and thus, the strain information can be analyzed. The technology can realize a large measurement range of thousands of micro-strains, but the measurement precision is generally in the order of ten mu epsilon under centimeter-level spatial resolution, so that the application of the technology in a high-precision measurement scene is limited.

Compared with the BOTDA, the OFDR technology has higher measurement accuracy and sensitivity and is an ideal strain measurement technology. The cross-correlation method and the phase method are two demodulation methods for strain measurement by OFDR. The cross-correlation method comprises the steps of respectively using collected data before and after strain as a reference signal and a measurement signal, simultaneously carrying out Fourier transform on two groups of signals to obtain a frequency domain signal, carrying out windowing and inverse Fourier transform on the frequency domain signal to obtain a spectrum domain signal, and finally carrying out cross-correlation on the two spectrums to obtain a spectrum offset, wherein the spectrum offset and the strain are in a linear relation, so that strain sensing can be realized. Different from a cross-correlation method, a phase method is to obtain strain information by demodulating the phase change of light waves, firstly, the phases of a reference signal and a measurement signal are extracted, a phase difference is obtained through mathematical operation, then, the actual phase difference is recovered through unwrapping, and when a certain part of an optical fiber is affected by strain, the phase difference at the position is suddenly changed, so that the strain information is obtained. Compared with the cross-correlation method, the windowing processing is not needed when the phase method is used, so the spatial resolution of the phase method can reach the limit of the spatial resolution of the system theoretically, and the advantage of the OFDR on the spatial resolution is better exerted.

However, both the cross-correlation method and the phase method have a limitation in the measurement range. When a cross-correlation method is used, if the strain measurement range is large, the similarity between the reference spectrum and the measurement spectrum is reduced, and the spectrum offset cannot be accurately calculated, so that the strain measurement has errors. Similarly, when the phase method is used to measure large strain, the phase change may exceed the limit of the maximum phase value in the unwrapping process, resulting in inaccurate measurement.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides an optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on a phase accumulation measurement method, and aims to solve the technical problems that the strain measurement range is large, the cross-correlation method causes variable measurement errors, and the phase method causes inaccurate measurement in the conventional OFDR technology.

The invention provides an optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on a phase accumulation measuring method, which has the following specific technical scheme:

the optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measuring method comprises the following steps:

s1, injecting laser generated by the tunable laser source and scanned by equal periodicity into the optical fiber to be tested, and collecting an OFDR time domain signal of the optical fiber to be tested;

s2, obtaining the real phase phi of the OFDR time domain signal of each scanning period in the step S1_i(z), i is the laser wavelength scanning times, i is 1,2, …, n, z is the fiber distance;

s3, obtaining phi in adjacent scanning period_i(z) subtracting to obtain the unwrapped phase difference delta phi_i(z), i.e. Δ Φ_i(z)＝Φ_i+1(z)-Φ_i(z)；

S4, unwrapping the phase difference delta phi of the step S3_i(z) sequentially performing unwrapping operation to obtain a true phase difference

S5, all phase differences in the step S4Sequentially adding to obtainNamely, it is The total phase difference corresponding to the whole strain loading process;

s6, comparing the total phase difference in step S5And carrying out differential operation to obtain a strain change value of the optical fiber to be detected.

In some embodiments, in step S1, the OFDR time-domain signal is obtained by a collection device after mixing a rayleigh scattered light signal generated by the optical fiber to be measured with local oscillator light.

In some embodiments, in step S2, the OFDR time domain signal obtained in each scanning cycle is recorded in the optical frequency domain, the frequency domain signal is transformed into the spatial domain complex signal by fourier transform, the phase angle of the spatial domain complex signal is calculated, and then the real phase Φ of the measurement signal is extracted by unwrapping for each scanning cycle_i(z)。

In some embodiments, in step S3, the difference between the phase differences of the adjacent dot positions in the same group in two adjacent scanning cycles is less than 2 pi.

In some embodiments, in step S6, the total strain is measuredAnd carrying out differential operation to obtain differential relative phases on the whole optical fiber to be detected, wherein phase mutation can occur at the strain position, positioning can be carried out through mutation, and the strain size can be obtained through conversion.

The invention has the following beneficial effects: the phase accumulation process in the present technique does not result in noise accumulation, assuming that the calculated phase containsNoise termThen the phase of the measurement signal per scan cycle isSubtracting phases in adjacent scanning periods and then unwrapping to obtain a phase difference sequence as follows:

……

the phase difference sequences are accumulated, and it can be seen that phase noise terms in the intermediate process are mutually cancelled when the phase difference sequences are accumulated, and only phase noise terms in the intermediate process are left at lastEquivalent to phase subtraction of the first and last scan cycles, this is similar to the operation of direct subtraction of the reference and measurement signals without the use of an accumulation method, and therefore does not introduce additional noise. However, in the cross-correlation method, an accumulation method cannot be used because noise is included in each cross-correlation peak position and cannot be eliminated, and the accumulation method further causes the noise to gradually increase, thereby causing measurement errors.

Compared with the phase method in the prior art, which only uses the twice measurement signals before and after strain to calculate the phase difference, the optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measurement method provided by the invention realizes strain measurement by calculating the phase difference sequence in each adjacent scanning period and accumulating, does not introduce additional noise interference, simultaneously solves the problem of limitation of phase unwrapping on the maximum phase change value, effectively increases the strain measurement range, and realizes the strain measurement with high precision and high spatial resolution.

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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of an optical frequency domain reflectometry type sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measurement method provided by the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of an optical frequency domain reflectometer in embodiment 1;

FIG. 3 is a phase distance curve in example 1;

fig. 4 is a phase time graph in example 1.

Detailed Description

In order that the objects, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the following detailed description of preferred embodiments thereof, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which fig. 1 to 4 are shown.

Example 1

The optical frequency domain reflectometry system in the present embodiment is shown in fig. 2, and includes a tunable laser 1, a first coupler 2, an auxiliary interferometer 3, a second coupler 4, a circulator 5, a coherent detection module 7, and a processing module 8. The tunable laser 1 outputs high-coherence continuous wave laser with scanned wavelength, the polarization state of the output light of the laser is linear polarization, and the laser can be DFB, DBR, VCSEL, ECDL and the like. The laser light is split into two beams by the first coupler 2. A beam of laser light which is weak and is split by the coupler 2 is sent to the auxiliary interferometer 3 to form an external clock signal, and the auxiliary interferometer 3 can be a michelson structure interferometer or a mach-zehnder structure interferometer. The stronger part of the output of the first coupler 2 is first split into two parts again by the second coupler 4, wherein the stronger part enters from the first port of the circulator 5 and passes from the second port into the sensing fiber 6, and the backscattered rayleigh light generated in the sensing fiber 6 enters from the second port of the circulator 5 and passes from the third port into the coherent detection module 7 together with the weaker beam of the second coupler 4. The output signal of the coherent detection module 7 is connected to the data acquisition and processing module 8 to obtain the OFDR time domain signal. The external clock signal of the auxiliary interferometer 3 is used to trigger the acquisition and processing module 8 to correct for light source non-linearities.

The optical frequency domain reflectometer-based sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measurement method provided by the embodiment has the following specific technical scheme:

the optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measuring method comprises the following steps:

s1, injecting laser generated by the tunable laser source and scanned by equal periodicity into the optical fiber to be tested, and collecting an OFDR time domain signal of the optical fiber to be tested;

s2, recording the OFDR time domain signal obtained in each scanning period in an optical frequency domain, transforming the frequency domain signal to a spatial domain complex signal through Fourier transformation, calculating the phase angle of the spatial domain complex signal, and extracting the real phase phi of the OFDR time domain signal in each scanning period by unwrapping_i(z), i is the laser wavelength scanning times, i is 1,2, …, n, z is the fiber distance;

s3, obtaining phi in adjacent scanning period_i(z) subtracting to obtain the phase difference delta phi_i(z), i.e. Δ Φ_i(z)＝Φ_i+1(z)-Φ_i(z), the difference of the phase difference of the adjacent point positions of the same group in the two adjacent scanning periods is less than 2 pi;

s4, converting the phase difference theta phi in the step S3_i(z) sequentially performing unwrapping operation to obtain a true phase differenceThis unwrapped phase (i.e., the true phase difference) represents the instantaneous amount of strain between two adjacent scan cycles;

s5, all phase differences in the step S4Sequentially adding to obtainNamely, it is The total phase difference corresponding to the whole strain loading process;

s6, comparing the total phase difference in step S5And carrying out differential operation to obtain differential relative phases on the whole optical fiber to be detected, wherein phase mutation can occur at the strain position, positioning is carried out through mutation, and the magnitude of strain can be obtained through conversion, so that the strain change value of the optical fiber to be detected is obtained.

When the optical fiber 6 to be measured is 19m, the OFDR distance resolution provided by the embodiment is about 0.65cm, the strain region is on the optical fiber section with the width of 11.4cm at 16.6m, and the displacement table stretches the sensing optical fiber 0.01mm at a time until the thickness is 0.03 mm. In the measurement process, an OFDR system scans 4225 times in total, the scanning period is 50ms, time domain signals obtained by 4225 times of scanning are recorded in an optical frequency domain, frequency domain signals are converted into space domain complex signals through Fourier transformation, the phase angle of the space domain complex signals is calculated, and the real phase phi of the measurement signals in each scanning period is obtained by unwrapping₁(z)、Φ₂(z)、…Φ₄₂₂₅(z) subtracting the phases obtained in adjacent scanning periods, i.e. phi₂(z)-Φ₁(z)、Φ₃(z)-Φ₂(z)、…、Φ₄₂₂₅(z)-Φ₄₂₂₄(z) obtaining the real phase difference between the adjacent scanning periods through one unwrapping operationAll phase differences were summed to give the total phase change during fiber drawing from 0 to 0.03 mm. The phase distance curve calculated by this method is shown in fig. 3, and it can be seen that a phase jump (marked by a box) occurs at positions 16.6-16.714, illustrating the strain loading in this region. The strain position is amplified and displayed on a small graph, and the radian difference between adjacent points is far larger than 2 pi, which proves that the optical frequency domain reflectometer type sensing demodulation method based on the phase accumulation measuring method provided by the embodimentThe method can break through the limitation of phase unwrapping on the maximum phase change value, and realize the strain measurement in a large range. As shown in fig. 4, the curve of the phase change with time appears in a step-like shape corresponding to the process of loading strain on the triple-drawn fiber in this embodiment.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above examples, and those skilled in the art should also be able to make various changes, modifications, additions or substitutions within the spirit and scope of the present invention.