Distributed temperature sensing with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Paul Kai Yiu Ko; M. Süleyman Demokan; Hwa Yaw Tam

doi:10.1109/50.541213

Distributed temperature sensing with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers

Paul Kai Yiu Ko, M. Süleyman Demokan, Hwa Yaw Tam

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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The experimental verification of a novel fiber-optic sensor which performs distributed measurement of temperature by using a distributed erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is presented. The sensor configuration is similar to that of a conventional optical time-domain reflectometer and detects the Rayleigh backscattered portion of a pulsed optical signal which is amplified by the EDFA, along with the backward amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) generated by the EDFA. The sensor utilizes the temperature dependence of the gain in an EDFA. The amplification provided by the erbium-doped fiber, which is pumped at 1.48 μm significantly increases the magnitude of the optical signal reaching the receiver, thus leading to a simplified configuration and a potentially superior performance as compared to other types of distributed fiber-optic temperature sensors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2236-2244
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	14
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/50.541213
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 1996

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