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Accurate monitoring of an interferometric fiber-optic sensor with a multimode semiconductor laser

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Abstract

A technique for monitoring interferometric sensors by correlation of the optical signal from the sensor with the signal from a phase-modulated reference interferometer is described. The technique is applied to temperature measurement with a fiber Fabry–Perot sensing head. We extend the 7 °C unambiguous measurement range obtained with a 1.3μm laser diode as the light source to 43 °C by adding a second laser diode emitting at 1.55 μm. Experimentally, a rms phase-measurement error of ±0.28 rad, corresponding to a temperature error of ±0.32°C, was achieved with a low-quality multimode Fabry–Perot laser. The phase error was improved to ±0.14 rad, corresponding to a temperature error of ±0.16°C, by use of a distributed-feedback laser diode.

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