Thursday, February 9, 2012

Research on COTDR for measuring distributed temperature and strain

I just-found this abstract, which I found very useful while studying the market for OTDRs...


Research Paper Abstract -

The coherent optical time domain reflectometer (COTDR) based distributed temperature and strain sensing is studied in this paper. The sensing principle is analyzed and discussed in detail. Rayleigh backscattering in a single-mode optical fiber is measured by COTDR with a precisely frequency-controlled light source, and the cross-correlation of the Rayleigh backscattering is calculate to detect the frequency changes of the cross-correlation peak caused by the changes of temperature and strain. We perform simulations on the COTDR based sensing system by computer and draw some conclusions.

Source:

Yang Zhi;   Shi Pengxiang;   Li Yongqian;  
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., North China Electr. Power Univ., Baoding, China 
This paper appears in: Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE), 2011 Second International Conference on
Issue Date: 15-17 July 2011
On page(s): 590 - 593
Location: Hohhot
Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-9436-1
INSPEC Accession Number: 12242777
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MACE.2011.5986993 
Date of Current Version: 18 August 2011

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