Evaluating the position of an optical fiber disturbance
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H04B-010/00
H04B-017/00
출원번호
US-0295784
(2007-03-30)
등록번호
US-8670662
(2014-03-11)
우선권정보
EP-06251880 (2006-04-03)
국제출원번호
PCT/GB2007/001188
(2007-03-30)
§371/§102 date
20081002
(20081002)
국제공개번호
WO2007/113527
(2007-10-11)
발명자
/ 주소
Healey, Peter
Sikora, Edmund
출원인 / 주소
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
대리인 / 주소
Patterson Thuente Pedersen, P.A.
인용정보
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121
초록▼
The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for evaluating the position of a time-varying disturbance on an optical waveguide. The steps include: transmitting sensing signals onto the optical waveguide, which sensing signals have imposed thereon a modulation which is dependent, at lea
The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for evaluating the position of a time-varying disturbance on an optical waveguide. The steps include: transmitting sensing signals onto the optical waveguide, which sensing signals have imposed thereon a modulation which is dependent, at least in part, on their time of transmission; receiving returned sensing signals, which signals have been exposed to the disturbance; and, from the previously imposed modulation on the returned sensing signals, evaluating the position of the disturbance. Because the sensing signals have a modulation that is dependent at least in part on their transmission time, the round-trip time for the signals to travel to and from a disturbance can be inferred. From this round trip time, or a value related thereto, it is possible to directly or indirectly evaluate the position of the disturbance.
대표청구항▼
1. A method of interferometrically evaluating the position of a time varying disturbance on an optical waveguide, comprising: transmitting a plurality of outbound sensing signals from a continuous wave incoherent optical source onto the optical waveguide, which outbound sensing signals have imposed
1. A method of interferometrically evaluating the position of a time varying disturbance on an optical waveguide, comprising: transmitting a plurality of outbound sensing signals from a continuous wave incoherent optical source onto the optical waveguide, which outbound sensing signals have imposed thereon a modulation by a modulation signal having a frequency which is dependent, at least in part, on the time of transmission of the outbound sensing signals, wherein the outbound sensing signals are guided along an outbound path along the optical waveguide;receiving disturbance sensing signals, which are progressively returned from the outbound path by a process of distributed backscattering, wherein the disturbance sensing signals have been exposed to the disturbance, wherein the disturbance sensing signals are returned in a reverse direction along a waveguide portion of the optical waveguide, the waveguide portion comprising the same waveguide portion used to guide the outbound sensing signals in the outbound direction; andusing the previously imposed outbound modulation on the sensing signals, evaluating the position of the disturbance from the progressively returned disturbance sensing signals. 2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the modulation has a component which varies in a cyclic fashion. 3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the imposed modulation is a phase modulation. 4. A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the phase is modulated with a frequency which varies linearly with increasing time. 5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outbound sensing signals are modulated with a frequency that increases with time from a lower level to an upper level, and upon reaching the upper level, returns to the lower level. 6. A method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the frequency varies in a saw-tooth like manner. 7. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outbound sensing signals introduced into the waveguide are formed as pairs of signals, which signals of a pair are at least in part copies of one another. 8. A method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the copies of a given pair are introduced into the main line with a temporal offset relative to one another. 9. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the relative delay is undone, for received signals returned from the waveguide. 10. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the temporal offset is caused at an interferometer arrangement having a first path and a second path, the transit time of the first path being longer than that of the second path, copies of a pair being caused to travel along a different respective path to one another. 11. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the waveguide operates as a single mode waveguide. 12. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outbound sensing signals are optical signals which are modulated using a frequency modulation technique applied to the optical domain using an incoherent light source whose optical bandwidth is greater than the frequency modulation bandwidth. 13. A map A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the modulation is a phase modulation, and the method further comprises imposing, on the outbound sensing signals, an amplitude modulation. 14. Apparatus for interferometrically evaluating the position of a time varying disturbance on an optical waveguide comprising: means for transmitting a plurality of outbound sensing signals from a continuous wave incoherent optical source on the optical waveguide, wherein the outbound sensing signals are guided along an outbound path along the optical waveguide;means for imposing on the outbound sensing signals a modulation by a modulation signal having a frequency which is dependent, at least in part, on the time of transmission of the outbound sensing signals,means for receiving disturbance sensing signals which are progressively returned from the outbound path by a process of distributed backscattering, wherein the disturbance sensing signals have been exposed to the disturbance, and wherein the disturbance sensing signals are returned in a reverse direction along a waveguide portion of the optical waveguide, the waveguide portion comprising the same waveguide portion used to guide the outbound sensing signals in the outbound direction; andmeans for evaluating from the returned signals the position of the disturbance using the previously imposed modulation on the outbound sensing signals.
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