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Suppressing non-local effects due to Doppler frequency shifts in dynamic Brillouin fiber sensors

Optics Express, ISSN: 1094-4087, Vol: 28, Issue: 8, Page: 10760-70771
2020
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Brillouin fiber sensors have traditionally been limited to low-speed or static strain measurements due to the time-consuming frequency scans required. In the past decade, a number of novel high-speed measurement techniques have been proposed to enable Brillouin-based dynamic strain sensors. In this work, we present a new mechanism, which can limit the performance of high-speed dynamic Brillouin sensors. Specifically, we show that dynamic strain induced Doppler shifts can corrupt a distributed Brillouin strain measurement by introducing non-local signals throughout the fiber. We present a model showing that these non-local signals can introduce unacceptable levels of cross-talk or even exceed the local signal strength in reasonable operating conditions and experimentally observe these signals in a standard slope-assisted BOTDA sensor. Finally, we present a modified sensor architecture to address this issue and experimentally demonstrate low-noise (2.6 nε/Hz/), dynamic strain measurements with significantly reduced sensitivity to this type of non-local signal.

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