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Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry

Signal-dependent speckle-like noise has constituted a serious factor in Brillouin-grating based frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) reflectometry and it has been indispensable for improving the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of the Brillouin dynamic grating measurement to clarify the noise gener...

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Autores principales: Kikuchi, Tatsuya, Satoh, Ryohei, Kurita, Iori, Takada, Kazumasa
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8074031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33921848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21082870
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author Kikuchi, Tatsuya
Satoh, Ryohei
Kurita, Iori
Takada, Kazumasa
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Satoh, Ryohei
Kurita, Iori
Takada, Kazumasa
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description Signal-dependent speckle-like noise has constituted a serious factor in Brillouin-grating based frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) reflectometry and it has been indispensable for improving the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of the Brillouin dynamic grating measurement to clarify the noise generation mechanism. In this paper we show theoretically and experimentally that the noise is generated by the frequency fluctuations of the pump light from a laser diode (LD). We could increase the S/N from 36 to 190 merely by driving the LD using a current source with reduced technical noise. On the basis of our experimental result, we derived the theoretical formula for S/N as a function of distance, which contained the second and fourth-order moments of the frequency fluctuations, by assuming that the pump light frequency was modulated by the technical noise. We calculated S/N along the 1.35 m long optical fiber numerically using the measured power spectral density of the frequency fluctuations, and the resulting distributions agreed with the measured values in the 10 to 190 range. Since higher performance levels are required if the pump light source is to maintain the S/N as the fiber length increases, we can use the formula to calculate the light source specifications including the spectral width and rms value of the frequency fluctuations to achieve a high S/N while testing a fiber of a given length.
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spelling pubmed-80740312021-04-27 Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry Kikuchi, Tatsuya Satoh, Ryohei Kurita, Iori Takada, Kazumasa Sensors (Basel) Article Signal-dependent speckle-like noise has constituted a serious factor in Brillouin-grating based frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) reflectometry and it has been indispensable for improving the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of the Brillouin dynamic grating measurement to clarify the noise generation mechanism. In this paper we show theoretically and experimentally that the noise is generated by the frequency fluctuations of the pump light from a laser diode (LD). We could increase the S/N from 36 to 190 merely by driving the LD using a current source with reduced technical noise. On the basis of our experimental result, we derived the theoretical formula for S/N as a function of distance, which contained the second and fourth-order moments of the frequency fluctuations, by assuming that the pump light frequency was modulated by the technical noise. We calculated S/N along the 1.35 m long optical fiber numerically using the measured power spectral density of the frequency fluctuations, and the resulting distributions agreed with the measured values in the 10 to 190 range. Since higher performance levels are required if the pump light source is to maintain the S/N as the fiber length increases, we can use the formula to calculate the light source specifications including the spectral width and rms value of the frequency fluctuations to achieve a high S/N while testing a fiber of a given length. MDPI 2021-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8074031/ /pubmed/33921848 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21082870 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kikuchi, Tatsuya
Satoh, Ryohei
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Takada, Kazumasa
Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry
title Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry
title_full Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry
title_fullStr Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry
title_full_unstemmed Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry
title_short Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Pump Laser Frequency Fluctuations on Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Brillouin Dynamic Grating Measurement with Coherent FMCW Reflectometry
title_sort theoretical and experimental investigation of the effect of pump laser frequency fluctuations on signal-to-noise ratio of brillouin dynamic grating measurement with coherent fmcw reflectometry
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8074031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33921848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21082870
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