Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry
Signal-dependent speckle-like noise was the dominant noise in a Brillouin grating measurement with micrometer-resolution optical low coherence reflectometry (OLCR). The noise was produced by the interaction of a Stokes signal with beat noise caused by a leaked pump light via square-law detection. Th...
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author | Takada, Kazumasa Satoh, Shin-ichi Kawakami, Akiya |
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description | Signal-dependent speckle-like noise was the dominant noise in a Brillouin grating measurement with micrometer-resolution optical low coherence reflectometry (OLCR). The noise was produced by the interaction of a Stokes signal with beat noise caused by a leaked pump light via square-law detection. The resultant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was calculated and found to be proportional to the square root of the dynamic range (DR) defined by the ratio of the Stokes signal magnitude to the variance of the beat noise. The calculation showed that even when we achieved a DR of 20 dB on a logarithmic scale, the SNR value was only 7 on a linear scale and the detected signal tended to fluctuate over ±14% with respect to the mean level. We achieved an SNR of 24 by attenuating the pump light power entering the balanced mixer by 55 dB, and this success enabled us to measure the Brillouin spectrum distributions of mated fiber connectors and a 3-dB fused fiber coupler with a micrometer resolution as examples of OLCR diagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-70389922020-03-09 Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry Takada, Kazumasa Satoh, Shin-ichi Kawakami, Akiya Sensors (Basel) Article Signal-dependent speckle-like noise was the dominant noise in a Brillouin grating measurement with micrometer-resolution optical low coherence reflectometry (OLCR). The noise was produced by the interaction of a Stokes signal with beat noise caused by a leaked pump light via square-law detection. The resultant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was calculated and found to be proportional to the square root of the dynamic range (DR) defined by the ratio of the Stokes signal magnitude to the variance of the beat noise. The calculation showed that even when we achieved a DR of 20 dB on a logarithmic scale, the SNR value was only 7 on a linear scale and the detected signal tended to fluctuate over ±14% with respect to the mean level. We achieved an SNR of 24 by attenuating the pump light power entering the balanced mixer by 55 dB, and this success enabled us to measure the Brillouin spectrum distributions of mated fiber connectors and a 3-dB fused fiber coupler with a micrometer resolution as examples of OLCR diagnosis. MDPI 2020-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7038992/ /pubmed/32050649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20030936 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Takada, Kazumasa Satoh, Shin-ichi Kawakami, Akiya Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry |
title | Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry |
title_full | Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry |
title_fullStr | Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry |
title_full_unstemmed | Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry |
title_short | Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Grating Measurement with Micrometer-Resolution Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry |
title_sort | signal-to-noise ratio of brillouin grating measurement with micrometer-resolution optical low coherence reflectometry |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7038992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32050649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20030936 |
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